From an e-mail I received recently:
Australian Gun Law Update;
Here’s a thought to warm some of your hearts....
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
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,
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.(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, 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....’
You won’t see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
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.
Take note Americans, before it’s too late!
Bfl
Although our beloved Bammie Hussein is into Australian/UK gun control, he leaves out one key ingredient: total national level registration of all guns and licensing of all owners.
The police in those countries already know who owns what, so one day they just crook their finger at guns owners & say, “Turn them in or be arrested”.
Can’t do that in America, yet. Only Katrina-style searches for weapons in all homes by SWATing entire neighborhoods, which could result in mass civil disobedience or even insurrection.
In 2000 two presidential Democrats called for licensing & registration, Bill Bradley & Al Gore. They lost.
Registration equals confiscation & both sides know that. The showcase states of NY, NJ, CT, & CA provide ample evidence of destruction of civil liberties where guns are concerned.
I’d love to see Bammie call for national licensing & registration. Would love it.
And that radicalized Muslim 15 year old was one that kept his gun in order to shot at an Australian police station last week must have forced the debate again-—I hope.