Gun control in Kiwiland

[sestoppelman]

https://newspunch.com/liberals-shoc...-new-zealand-despite-strict-gun-control-laws/

 

[R.M.C.]

Gun control nuts got their way and it apparently back fired .

 

[Bullthrower338]

What a surprise!

 

[Proneshooter]

In a liberals mind, it only means they did not enact enough gun control laws. More laws will be needed to get the desired results.

 

[Bullthrower338]

In a liberals mind, it only means they did not enact enough gun control laws. More laws will be needed to get the desired results.

Correct, follow the bouncing ball of UK gun control! Take away guns and I will be damned if knife crimes don’t go up! People will figure out a way to kill each other even if the only thing available is a nerf gun and a feather duster!

 

[Cam Moon]

The world is getting more and more idiots every day.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

People will figure out a way to kill each other even if the only thing available is a nerf gun

Some years back, there was a ruckus out in the hallway of my college dorm. A couple guys were playing Russian Roulette with a nerf revolver, taking it in turns to shoot each other. I watched for a bit, then nearly fell over laughing when one of them shot the other in his open mouth by accident so the dart popped him in the back of the throat.

I can absolutely believe that someone would find a way to use nerf darts lethally, if only by sheer accident.

 

[Newboomer]

Stupidity: "Doing the same thing over and over hoping for different results." Typical lefty libtard tactics.

 

[Cam Moon]

Banning firearms HAS to work, right? After all, isn't that how we got everyone to stop doing drugs??

 

[35bore]

Well there are no guns in prisons. No one ever gets hurt there. Liberal Utopia

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

In a liberals mind, it only means they did not enact enough gun control laws. More laws will be needed to get the desired results.

@Proneshooter
It is easier to control an unarmed society than an armed society. Just look at North Korea and China as well as I think Russia

In Australia the gun crime didn't really alter but after the ban on semi-automatic weapons any gun crime got major headlines. Despite these bans and our licensing system we now have MORE LICENSED FIRE ARMS OWNERS than before and this number is continually growing.
Bob

 

[Deleted member 43267]

Something can double and still be insignificant. NZ has one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the world, and it is still low. And, the data in this article do not match any other stats on any other website or public database that I could find. The numbers reported here are very different, and are the only ones that show an increase (but see above). I did find a few news articles from NZ that reported the same trend, but they did not present any data, and they could not explain the increase they reported. I am not sure that the link is credible, and it was definitely not objective.

Jeff

 

[stug]

Down here in NZ the popular criminal firearms were sawn off double barrel shotguns and .22lr rifles. The odd crime had an old revolver. in the last few years Australia has been deporting NZ born crimes back to NZ. They have brought with them a much greater incidence of using firearms.
The number of semiauto rifles seized off crims has really increased. Going so far as a cop being killed by one as a result of a routine traffic stop about 2 weeks ago.

 

[Proneshooter]

@Proneshooter
It is easier to control an unarmed society than an armed society. Just look at North Korea and China as well as I think Russia

In Australia the gun crime didn't really alter but after the ban on semi-automatic weapons any gun crime got major headlines. Despite these bans and our licensing system we now have MORE LICENSED FIRE ARMS OWNERS than before and this number is continually growing.
Bob

Mr. Nelson,
I agree completely with you. I worry about our next election and the results that may follow. The Dems. have finally admitted what most gun owners already knew, the banning of semi auto weapons. But it will not stop there, the death of a thousand cuts, is what will eventually lead to the banning of most if not all firearms. All of our personal freedoms are under a massive assault here, and it is not getting better.

 

[MarkB]

Seams the world has gone crazy. Our Canadian Liberals are just as dumb. Lets use a pandemic and now boy Hitler has made some gun rules, announces 1500 guns but now truth is more are secretly added weekly. Guess Liberals world wide are all crazy, they all think the same. Ban legal guns, attack legal owners and confiscate property so criminals will stop doing crimes. Narrow minded idiots worldwide.

MB

 

[Cam Moon]

I just don't understand how ANYONE could believe that banning firearms is the answer. Has this ever worked anywhere? I don't get it.

 

[Hoas]

 

[Opposite Pole]

Interesting read regarding gun control in NZ from Sport Shooters’ Association of Australia, titled: “ARDERN APOLOGISES AFTER ROYAL COMMISSION MOSQUE FINDINGS”

Ardern apologises after royal commission mosque findings | Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia (SSAA)

The Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia promotes the shooting sports and protects firearm owners’ interests. With more than 180,000 members and 400 clubs, the SSAA is the premier shooting body representing licensed firearm owners in Australia.

ssaa.org.au

 

[BRICKBURN]

Pretty impressive to have the commission investigate the incident and determine the vetting system failed and not just provide a rationalization supporting the knee jerk policy.
If the PM’s apology is for the initial failure AND the knee jerk policy failure I will truly be impressed. I await the result....

 

[Graham Hunter]

Pretty impressive to have the commission investigate the incident and determine the vetting system failed and not just provide a rationalization supporting the knee jerk policy.
If the PM’s apology is for the initial failure AND the knee jerk policy failure I will truly be impressed. I await the result....

Don't hold your breath.