No surprize here. --Allen ----- Original Message ----- > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:52:39 -0600 > Subject: Fw: Fwd: FW: Guns > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: chris meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "James Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:17:48 MDT > Subject: Fwd: FW: Guns > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Australia & Guns > >It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced > >to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, a program > >costing the government more than $500 million dollars. > > > >And now the results are 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, homicides with firearms are up 300 > >percent. > >Figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed > >robbery with firearms (but increased drastically in the past 12 months). > >There has been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the > >elderly. > >Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how > >no improvement in "safety" has been served after such monumental effort > >and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". > >Bet you won't see this data on the evening news or hear your > >Governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this > >information! > > > >It's time to state it plainly: Guns in the hands of honest citizens > >save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws only affect the > >law-abiding citizens. > >Take note, Californians and other Americans, before it's too late! > >PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
