Austrilian Gun Control

[willy442]

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>>Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
>>
>>From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
>>
>>Hi friends, I thought you all would like to see the real figures
>>from Down
>>Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia
>>were forced by
>>a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by
>>our own
>>government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500
>>million
>>dollars.
>>
>>The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up
>>3.2
>>percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent;
>>Australia-wide, armed
>>robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of
>>Victoria alone,
>>homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while
>>the law-
>>abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not! and
>>criminals still
>>possess their guns!)
>>
>>While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease
>>in armed
>>robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the
>>past 12
>>months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is
>>unarmed.
>>There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults
>>of the
>>elderly.
>>
>>Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety
>>has
>>decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended
>>in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see
>>this on the
>>Canadian evening news or hear your Member of Parliament
>>disseminating this
>>information.
>>
>>The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest
>>citizens
>>save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the
>>law-abiding
>>citizens.
>>
>>Take note Canadians, before it's too late!
>>
>>FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
>>
>> DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
>>
>> BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN CANADA.
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[mark]

i just copyed this and emailed it to everyone on my list, and asked everyone to pass it on. if everyone on this site would do the same we could educate alot of people about what will happen if the libs get in. we could swing the vote and save our guns!

[Mr. Dean]

Sorry, you'll have to back this up w/ facts before I jump in.

- where was this quote pulled from?
- where did he (the officer) get his facts from?

This could be VERY good stuff if it can be substantiated.

[willy442]

This was emailed to me from a friend that works as a Oilfield Engineer in the Austrilian outback. That is all the info I have on it. I belive he is friends with the fellow

[willy442]

Done a check on the web. Australia Gun Control. Found way to much info to read now. Have to go to work. Later

[416]

l believe this has been floating around the internet for a while now.....l remember reading it on another site quite a while back.

[BigfishCanada]

Guys, I hate to bring up t he topic of who to vote for but we really all need to join forces and vote conservative. I am sure that if we got all the hunting forums together we can get some serious say with the tories

[Shoey]

Gun control is learning to hit what your aiming at.

[Mr. Dean]

Done a check on the web. Australia Gun Control. Found way to much info to read now. Have to go to work. Later

There's some pretty impresive #'s in your post. #'s that couldn't be scoffed at buy the people that are trying to ram this sh** (gun bans) down our throats. If we could put some backbone to it (the post).

Do we have any members that know someone from the land 'Down Under' that could steer us to some kind of university study or govt stats?

SOMEONE has to be keeping an eye on this SOMEWHERE.

[Shoey]

Sorry, you'll have to back this up w/ facts before I jump in.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/26/12629

http://www.nraila.org//issues/factsh...ead.aspx?id=30

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/aus.html

http://www.gunowners.org/hlr-au.htm

http://www.gunsandcrime.org/aussiegc.html

http://www.nrawinningteam.com/auresult.html

http://www.mindconnection.com/librar...gunban_aus.htm

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/co...y.asp?aid=8073