Is this what we can look forward to?

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> Is this what we can look forward to?
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> Australian Gun Law Update
> Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts . . ..
> From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
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> Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the now available
> data from Down Under.
> It has now been one year (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 available:
> Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent;
> Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 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 as compared with the last one year period when
> private ownership of a firearm was legal.
> (NB: the law-abiding citizens did turn in their personal
> firearms, the criminal element did not and thus criminals
> inAustralia still possess their guns.)
> While data for the 25 years preceding the confiscation of
> privately owned guns showed a steady decrease in armed robbery
> with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12
> months as criminals now are assured their victims will be unarmed.
> There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and
> assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
> 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.'
> This story of well intentioned government intervention in the
> rights of lawful individuals to own and possess firearms won't be
> seen in the mainstream US media or on the American evening
> news. Senator Obama who advocates a similar confiscation in
> the US will not be reporting any of this to you.
> But, the Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in
> the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
> gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
> Americans may want to take note before it's too late!
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> FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
> DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
> BE A PARTICIPANT IN THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO DOESN'T WANT TO SEE
> WHAT HAPPENED IN AUSTRALIA HAPPEN IN THE US !
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