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	Gun politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gun control advocates point out, however, that the degree of training Swiss receive in gun care and use, and the fact that the owners of these guns are known to the government, in and of itself constitutes a kind of gun control.
		Gun control advocates excuse the intrusive imposition of a registration requirement by arguing that it is merely a reasonable precaution similar to the registration of privately-owned motor vehicles—the primary counterpoint being vehicle ownership's lack of explicit Constitutional protection.
		John Lott, claim to have discovered a positive correlation between gun control legislation and crimes in which criminals confront citizens - that is, increases in the number or strictness of gun control laws are correlated with increases in the number or severity of violent crimes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gun_politics (2077 words)

	Gun politics in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia has a long history of legitimate firearms use, predominantly for the purposes of agriculture, recreational hunting and pest control.
		Historically, Australia has always had tough restrictions on handguns (requiring shooters to be members of registered gun clubs, and conducting extensive police checks on pistol shooters), whilst rifles and shotguns were considerably less restricted, with the only real restrictions on fully-automatic rifles and 'military style' weapons, once these became widely available from the early Eighties.
		In Australia, firearm advocacy organisations have never approached the strength of the National Rifle Association in the United States and political sympathisers generally are quite discreet in their support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia (2591 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Police even went door-to-door demanding that gun owners turn over their weapons, even though they had not been found guilty of committing any crime (other than that they were violating the "gun control" law), and many of the guns which were prohibited cost several hundred, or even thousands of dollars.
		Further, the gun's serial number must still be readable, so as to identify that particular gun from all others of that make and model, and the ballistics characteristics of the gun cannot have changed very much from the time it was used in the crime.
		Guns, which "gun control" supporters claim are "designed only to kill" were involved in about 1,400 accidental deaths in 1990, and an additional 18,800 suicides, and 13,600 murders, for a total of 33,800 firearm-related deaths.
	www.rkba.org /research/rkba.faq (15788 words)

	Michael Jennings
		Australia had long allowed television political advertising, with the bizarre proviso that there was an "electronic media cooling off period" for three days before the election in which the election was not permitted to be mentioned in any way on television or radio (be it in advertisements, news programs or any other context).
		Politics is instead for a certain political class, and genteel bans on advertising and free air time given to established parties (and hence their chosen candidates) are a symptom of this.
		And the right wing political parties, the Liberal Party in Australia, the Republican party in America, and others, are also the parties of the traditionally wealthy, who in the South one imagines meeting at the Augusta Country Club to discuss how to get the Bush admistration to protect their hereditory wealth for them.
	michaeljennings.blogspot.com /2002_12_08_michaeljennings_archive.html (10428 words)

	Australian Gun Ban Proved Disastrous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1996, Australia adopted draconian gun control laws banning certain guns (60 percent of all firearms), requiring registration of all firearms and licensing of all gun owners.
		Draconian gun legislation was passed in the heat of the moment because the fate of the nation was determined by a handful of statist socialists who find individual freedom abhorrent.
		Consider the politics: There are three major parties in Australian politics: the center right (Liberal Party), the socialist camp (Labor Party) and the ultra-left (Australian Democratic Party) — this last one easily tilted the balance of power toward stringent gun control at the expense of freedom.
	www.newsmax.com /articles?a=2000/6/26/12629 (876 words)

	Talk:Gun politics - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We in Australia do have a pro-gun lobby, the "Shooters Party", but it seems to me to be a pretty minor and fringe force in Australian politics, not at all like the NRA in the US.
		The gun control advocates claim that all gun control laws and gun bans are extremely effective in reducing violent crime rates and very effective at preventing criminals from obtaining guns.
		Gun rights advocates claim that gun control laws have not reduced violent crime rates and in fact often lead to more violent crime and all too often to government-sponsored exterminations and that such laws have no effect on the availbility of guns to criminals.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Talk:Gun_Politics (5763 words)

	Gun Control: Crime Fighter? - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum
		Gun control people tend to use fabricated statistics about how with more guns, there are occasionally more deaths.
		Criminals in Australia were recently building WWII era submachineguns with suppressors in their house (I'll look up the article if you want).
		Just because I have a gun in my closet doesnt make me think "yeah, I need to kill someone." Allow people to provide for themselves and their families in ways concurrent with the law and crime will be drastically reduced.
	www.uspoliticsonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7906 (1955 words)

	John Howard - Psychology Central
		The ban and an accompanying 'gun buy-back scheme' was popular with the general population but not with predominantly Coalition-voting gun owners.
		A major change in Howard's political fortunes occurred in August and September 2001, when the government refused permission for the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying a group of asylum seekers picked up in international waters, to enter Australian waters.
		Howard ordered the ship be boarded by the SAS and spoke strongly of the need for Australia to 'decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come'.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/John_Howard (3980 words)

	Reason magazine -- October 2000, Guns Down Under by Jacob Sullum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ad, which can be viewed on the NRA’s Web site (www.nra.org), says that murders with guns, assaults with guns, armed robberies, and home invasions all increased after the Australian government confiscated about 660,000 privately owned firearms in 1996.
		Defenders of gun control cite the 1998 decline in homicide as evidence that Australia’s policies are working, while opponents cite the two-year increases in other offenses as evidence that the government has encouraged criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens.
		Homicides in Australia have been fluctuating since the late 1980s, and the upward trends in assaults, robberies, and unlawful entries began before 1996.
	www.reason.com /0010/ci.js.html (327 words)

	Australia has race riots. - Page 6 - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health
		The organization contends that guns used in hunting are the most dangerous, when stored in the home, because they are "available for domestic impropriety." Most disturbing for Gun Control Australia is that the granting of gun ownership and use to members of gun clubs has led to increased membership in these organizations.
		Gun Control Australia believes that new firearms legislation has not altered the number of guns in homes, 25 percent of which are estimated to contain at least one weapon.
		Guns expedite this but they are not the sole nor the primary means of violence.
	www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?p=375702#post375702 (5507 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Crime up Down Under
		Since Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent, prompting critics of U.S. gun control efforts to issue new warnings of what life in America could be like if Congress ever bans firearms.
		Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said the situation in Australia reminds him of Great Britain, where English lawmakers have passed similar restrictive gun control laws.
		Lott, formerly of the University of Chicago and a gun control analyst who has conducted the most extensive study on the impact of concealed carry laws in the nation's history, the more liberal the right to carry, the less violent crime occurs.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15304 (1414 words)

	Gun Control Australia
		The gun used was made by Bushmaster and it was apparently stolen from the Bulls Eye gun store.
		The gun lobby suggests that stricter gun laws are next to useless and an infringement on democratic freedoms.
		Sometimes gun lobbyists argue that if there were more guns in private hands criminals would be able to be stopped in their tracks.
	www.guncontrol.org.au (871 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Australia/Antarctica / Handyman nailed with his own nail gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun in a misguided prank that left him with a nail lodged in his brain.
		Shorten, 33, picked up a nail gun that he thought was empty, pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger.
		He later said he had turned off the gun's compressor and taken out its nail cartridge but did not realize there was still enough pressure in the gun to fire a nail.
	www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2004/03/09/handyman_nailed_with_his_own_nail_gun (238 words)

	Guns and Australian Society - Articles
		Guns and Politics in Australian Society collecting articles to establish a broad picture of the politics of guns.
		It is legitimised in much left-wing political activity, in the protests such as those that led to Indian independence from Britain, and celebrated in modern liberal values on the environment, race and sexuality.
		In politics though, police efforts are reactionary, over-prescriptive and challenge Australians to defend their freedoms.
	www.c-l-a-s-s.net /gunpolitics1.htm (547 words)

	U.S. finds no proof gun control reduces violence - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The CDC said the report suggests more study is needed, not that gun laws don't work.
		About the only conclusion the task force could draw from the surveys was that mandatory waiting periods reduced gun suicides in people over 55.
		But even that reduction was not big enough to significantly affect gun suicides for the overall population.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20031002-110954-9292r.htm (574 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		Thus, the AHP describes itself as "a political party that adopts the Bible as its political textbook and is unashamed to be explicitly Christian...
		Marxist political organizer James Harris was the SWP Presidential nominee in 1996 (ballot status in 11 states - 8,500 votes - 0.01%) and 2000 (ballot status in 14 states - 7,378 votes - 9th place - 0.01%).
		Frustrated by traditional partisan politics and the quality of national media coverage of elections, this party proposes to seek "direct input" from the public to mold this new politically centrist party into a vehicle that unifies America in the 21st Century.
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9731 words)

	"Gun Controllers: It's Like They Have an Addiction!" by Howard Nemerov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This twisted psychology is why gun controllers, who have no compassion for you and no consideration for your civil rights, bend over backwards to be compassionate and forgiving to criminals whose lives have demonstrated a complete lack of compassion towards you.
		This is indicative of the withdrawal symptoms of gun controllers, when faced with a loss of gun control.
		Yes, there are many more guns on the streets, but a study of the FBI Uniform Crime data shows significantly lower crime rates in shall-issue states.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5379 (2042 words)

	Nittewa
		Perhaps the people who are moderating their forum have started to push their individual political agendas without the knowledge of the TLA people, but that is highly unlikely.
		This is directly attributable to the LTTE call for a boycott of the presidential election by the Tamil people which translated into negligible polling by the people in the areas directly under their control, negligible polling in the north and low polling amongst the Tamil community in the east.
		The use of violence and intimidation in the context of the presidential election is the most recent measure of the LTTE’s commitment to a negotiated political settlement of the ethnic conflict and of its willingness and ability to participate in a democratic process.
	nittewa.blogspot.com (9241 words)

	Varmint Al's Gun Rights & Politics Page
		The Senate's leading gun control advocate, Senator Charles Schumer (D) NY - who's currently pressuring the White House to extend the 1994 assault weapons ban - travels with an armed bodyguard, www.
		Defensive gun uses are almost completely ignored by the media, but Americans use guns defensively about two million times a year, five times more often than guns are used to commit crimes.
		There is probably not a single gun owner that is in compliance with all of those unconstitutional laws.
	www.varmintal.com /apoli.htm (11325 words)

	Bastards Inc.: Politics in Australia, or how to masturbate with a cheese grater. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Politics in Australia, or how to masturbate with a cheese grater.
		As someone who takes in interest in Australian politics, I am often amused by the minor parties occasional outbursts on whatever topic the media seems intent on beating up at the moment.
		In closing, may Scotland's rugby players be afflicted with a horrible case of diaorrhea for tonights quarter final against Australia in the RWC.
	bastardsinc.blogs.com /bastardsinc/2003/11/politics_in_aus.html (362 words)

	ipedia.com: Gun politics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Advocates for citizens having the right to bear arms often point to totalitarian regimes that passed gun control legislation as a first step of their reign of terror.
		Some persons oppose registration of guns or licensing of gun owners because if captured, the associated records would provide military invaders with a means for locating and eliminating law-abiding (i.e.
		Some scholars, notably John Lott, claim to have discovered a positive correlation between gun control legislation and crimes in which criminals confront citizens - that is, increases in the number or strictness of gun control laws are correlated with increases in the number or severity of violent crimes.
	www.ipedia.com /gun_politics_1.html (861 words)

	James Watkins: 'Jim Shorts' on politics
		We blow away Australia and Europe by a five to one margin and Asia by a 95 to one ratio.
		First, guns could only be bought and sold at a licensed gun dealer or what I'd call “armacists.” No sales from the trunks of cars or unregulated trade shows.
		And, the United States, which prides itself in being Number One, is tops in gun deaths blowing away Australia and Europe by a five to one margin and Asia by a 95 to one.
	home.mchsi.com /~jnwatkins/shoriss.htm (9027 words)

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	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Experimental jet 'a success'
		Researchers in Australia say they have achieved supersonic ignition in the atmosphere for the first time with the successful test of an experimental hypersonic aircraft.
		The scientists say data from a 10-minute test flight at the end of July at Woomera in South Australia indicates that supersonic combustion successfully took place.
		But its conceptual engine was fired from a gun in an enclosed facility on the ground.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2196910.stm (490 words)

	ABC Politics - 22/04/02 : PM 'playing politics' with gun laws: gold medal shooter
		PM 'playing politics' with gun laws: gold medal shooter
		Australian Olympic gold medal shooter and one-time Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Ballarat, Russell Mark, says the Prime Minister is playing politics with uniform national gun laws.
		Earlier this week John Howard said he was prepared to tighten national gun laws.
	www.abc.net.au /news/politics/2002/04/item20020421112808_1.htm (213 words)

	Australia warned by terrorists - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum
		This, and the Bali bombing, hopefully serve as a reminder that the US is not alone in this war.
		It was the second statement in a week by the Tawhid Islamic Group, a previously unknown group which on Wednesday threatened attacks in Bulgaria and Poland if their troops remained in Iraq.
		The al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah was blamed for that attack.
	www.uspoliticsonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5099 (262 words)

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