Re: [MV] Guns, not MV's. Delete now.

From: islander (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 21:04:13 PDT


I know someone from Australia and in fact just saw him a week ago.
According to the Australians, these statistics were played around (read
-> made up, taken out of context, and otherwise butchered) for a
not-so-hidden agenda. In general, don't believe everything you read,
especially when it comes from a source is either anonymous or from a
group that has no interest in objective thinking. Statistics can, and
too often are, twisted into a lie by a skilled (and/or unscrupulous) hand.

Just more food for thought from a gun owning, pro-gun rights guy that
still believes he can have his guns AND a rational look at the facts.

Steve

>Subject: Aussie's Guns
>
> 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 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! PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST!
>
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