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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

- Patrick Henry

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms....."

- Thomas Jefferson

"With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'."

- unknown

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future".

- Adolf Hitler, 1935

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were armed.

The first year results are now in since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

• 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 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.

http://www.colemantyler.com/gunfacts.php