Great Video

This video is pure 'Penn and Teller' all about gun control. I love the clip with Hillary in it. God help us if she is elected.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=23 ... 4220&hl=en

I usually don't 'get political' on forums, but this subject is badly in need of a dose of Penn and Teller.

Greg L

Another reality check about gun laws:

From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
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> >> 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 mo! re than $500 million dollars.
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> >> The first year results are now in:
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> >> Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,
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> >> Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent ;
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> >> Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes,
> >>44 percent)!
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> >> In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms
> >>are now up 300 percent.
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> >> (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them
> >>in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
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> >> 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.
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> >> There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and
> >>assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
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> >> 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 the State Assembly disseminating this information.
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> >> The Australian experience speaks for itself. 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

Greg L

Pen & Teller are great and that was pretty good...

That quote from the officer however is most likely a host and not very accurate. First thing I do when getting any e-mail like that is check out on snopes or other simialr sites. About 95% of them are fake.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp