Hmm, I don't remember ever having "the right to bear arms" in Australia. After the shootings in Port Arthur a few years ago, there was a concerted effort to rid Australia of the violence associated with gun-ownership by calling an amnesty on illegal guns - maybe you were thinking of that? 

I know that the all-powerful gun-lobby in the States have been spreading misinformation about an increase in crime since the gun amnesty. As far as I know, the opposite is the case! I certainly would not believe anything that those propagandists claim. I don't know how anyone who is at least halfway in control of their mind (that puts out the gun-lobby) could think that the widespread ownership of dangerous weapons would result in a safer society.

Just my $A0.02 worth (that's not much in $US).

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>>> Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> 25/01/01 6:42:08 >>>
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> Yours, from a (relatively) weapon free England

My condolences, particularly since your crime rate has,
er, "shot up" since disarming the citizens...
as has also happened in Australia.

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