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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 Australian 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.  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 your 
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, and Canadians before it's too late!!!!)

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