Here's a response to your guns in Australia article. -Lynn > Something to think about!! > > Gun statistics > > > Some Startling Statistics... > > Number of physicians in the U.S. > > > 700,000 > > > Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year > > > 120,000 > > > Accidental deaths per physician > > > 0.171 > Number of gun owners in the U.S. > > > 80,000,000 > > > Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) > > > 1,500 > > > Accidental deaths per gun owner > > > 0.0000188 > > > Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than > gun owners. > > > Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the > seventeenth of November, 1999 > > Please pass this on!!!! > >Subject: Results of the first year after gun confiscation in Australia > >Orange County Register Letters to the Editor Section 8/4/99: > >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 3.2percent; 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 show a >steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms(changed 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 observed 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! Here's a response to your guns in Australia article. -Lynn Something to think about!! Gun statistics Some Startling Statistics... Number of physicians in the U.S. 700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year 120,000 Accidental deaths per physician 0.171 Number of gun owners in the U.S. 80,000,000 Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) 1,500 Accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188 Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the seventeenth of November, 1999 Please pass this on!!!!