JohnJohnsn wrote:
> 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 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 6.2 percent.
How many would have been prevented by a gun?
>
> Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent.
How many would have been prevented by a gun?
>
> Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
Armed with what? Boomerangs ?
>
> In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300
> percent!!!
Looks like they need to confiscate MORE firearms from you
murderous Auzzies.
>
> (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the
> criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
Which makes them easy to identify, don't it?
>
> 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.
If fear of attacking armed-prey were an issue, the pre-ban rates
would have been near zero, now wouldn't they?
> There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of
> the elderly, while the resident is at home.
How many of those elderly possessed firearms before the ban?
Eliminate those that didn't from your stats, and recalculate.
>
> 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 American evening news or hear your governor or members of the
> State Assembly disseminating this information.
The U$$A couldn't care less what you beeyah soaked auzzies do
now that your useful idiot and Bu$hite Lap-dog John Howard has
been flushed to the trashheap of history.
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