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 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 data on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly 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 Americans, before it's to late!
I find this most interesting. Also, for the communist lurkers out there - undoubtedly you think you will be safe in the war that ensues if and when your minions ever come for our guns. Quite the contrary, 'you are either with the communists or against them'.
Whether you plant the seeds of communism/fascism, water the seeds, tend to the garden or 'reap the harvest', you are one and the same when and if the anti-freedom harvest begins - no one in the communist food chain will survive what will ensue.
The whole country isn't Kalifornia.
When it comes to that pass, we will come for the politicians who send the confiscators. Then we will come for those who voted and applauded them into power.