From: < DonSilberger@hvc.rr.com >
    Subject: [LPNY DISCUSS] Fwd: A police officer in Australia
       Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:06:57 -0500
         To: < lpny_discuss@yahoogroups.com >
       From: Douglas Davis < davisda@ourpeak.com >

    Subject: A police officer in Australia

   From: "D Ray Hickman" < xraycommd@comcast.net >
Subject: Fw: Important bit of info
 

----- Original Message -----
   From: Carl Pringle
   Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: Fw: Important bit of info

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 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 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.

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 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!

FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST!! DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE
SILENT MAJORITY, BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS
HAPPEN IN THE U.S.A. TTFN


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