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 on 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!

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Comments

  • You need to chase the "British" government out and hammer out your own Representative/Constitutional repubic, aka the Soverign Country of Australia!

  • Mankind governing mankind to his own injury.  Any and all Gun Control laws are all Anticonstitutional, and the only things they accomplish is the ability for the honest Citizens to keep themselves armed against thugs, thieves and a despotic Government.

  • That's funny, the U.S. media and all of their mouthpiece pundits and analysts are advising it's peace and harmony for all in the Land Down Under.  You need to get these stats out on a news wire somewhere....and fast.

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