Aussies - is this true?

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GrannyLois Elizabethton (Stoney, TN(Zone 6b) Aug 23, 2002

Australian gardener friends, I got this on email and was wondering if it was true. I am interested in the actual facts, not opinions. Thanks in advance.


[Interesting Australian Gun Confiscation Results are IN!

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 $50 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 past12 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.]

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Elena Middle, TN(Zone 6b) Aug 23, 2002

Lois, my son-in-law is from Australia and all of his family still lives there. I have copied and pasted your message and have sent it to him. He will be checking it out for me.

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