From Australia...
The beginning !!!
Australian Gun Law Update
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.
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