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Australian Gun Law Update After One Year
Rugerforum.com ^ | 04/07/08 | Ed Rendell

Posted on 04/15/2008 9:26:24 PM PDT by epow

Australian Gun Law Update After One Year

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!


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; banglist; gun; law
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To: epow

wow.

I shouldnt say wow, I aint surprised...


21 posted on 04/16/2008 4:02:51 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: epow

Thank God our Founding Fathers recognized that armed citizens are the best defense against tyranny whether the tyrants are politicians or criminals. In our constitution the right to bear arms is second only to the right of free speech and religion.


22 posted on 04/16/2008 7:28:07 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: zot

Yep. John Ray has been talking about this on his Dissecting Leftism blog


23 posted on 04/16/2008 6:00:36 PM PDT by GreyFriar ( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
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