DeTomaso Mailing List: November 2000, Message #227

Be advised, if Algore wins, get ready to surrender your guns,
your freedom, and your Pantera. Algore has said in his book,
"the biggest threat to mankind is the automobile"(Pantera).
Let the flames begin ! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead !
-Zack

I received this from a friend of a friend "Down Under."

 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

 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 too late!