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Default The dangers to australia of gun extremism


"Peter Lucas" > wrote in message
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> GCA believe that it is profoundly unwise to be associated with
> organizations that preach the possibility of insurrection against an
> elected government.


Who are these organizations? Care to name them?

> We are worried, therefore, that some shooter groups in australia


'Some shooter groups'? Care to name them?

> remain associated with such extremist American groups.


Extremist American groups such as?

>
> Guns murdered more than 7000 people in australia in the past decade.
> Nine out of 10 of the victims were male.
>


So 7000 guns convicted and sentenced.

> The number of killings caused by firearms dropped almost 65 per cent
> between 1991 and 2001, with the biggest yearly fall in deaths coming
> after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
>


What is the source of this?

> A report by the Australian Institute of Criminology found that the
> number of deaths caused by guns each year dropped to 333 in 2001
> from
> 729 in 1991.
>


What is the title of this report and where can it be found?

> The above facts tell me its CASE CLOSED when it comes to the
> benefits
> of proper gun restrictions;


'Gun restrictions' such as?

Charles L