Gun Control.
Intelligent people have difficulty in understanding Australia’s
firearms laws. Such as why do 17th & 18th century
pistols require an “H” class restricted licence for ownership & use? This
is the same licence requirement for say a 9mm semi-automatic Glock handgun,
there is a vast difference between a flintlock pistol & a breach-loading
semi-auto pistol! Then there is the self defence issue, if you experience a
home invasion & you & your family are at risk of harm or death, then
you will just have to die, because it is illegal to use your gun to defend
yourself! One would have thought this was a human right, but no, not in
Australia it isn’t!
Why is it that the gun is to blame when people, criminals, commit a
firearms offence? Just for argument’s sake let’s assume there is a spate of
killings where the tool used is a wood golf club. Now if the government suddenly
decided to confiscate all wood golf clubs, golfers would be up in arms, “why
blame us for what someone else does with a wood golf club” they would say, “it
is the killer you should blame, blaming a wood golf club is ridiculous”! And of
course they would be right (I wonder how many members of “Gun Control Australia
play golf?), blaming an inanimate object would be a downright stupid thing to
do, & yet that is exactly what the government has done in regards to guns. The
argument we often get thrown at us by people with no understanding is “why do
you need a gun? People don’t need guns! Well if shooters & hunters don’t
need guns, then golfers don’t need golf clubs! The fact is that we like our guns;
we enjoy having our guns, just like golfers enjoy having & using their golf
clubs.
In the Port Arthur shootings (there never was a coronial enquiry, all
swept under the carpet!), they say the gun used was an assault rifle, an AR15
caliber .308. The Australian government used this shooting as an excuse to
confiscate the guns belonging to law abiding citizens. What guns did they
confiscate? Well AR15s had been banned a long time ago; in fact the AR15 used
in the Port Arthur shootings allegedly belonged to the Tasmanian Police
Department!!! The guns they confiscated were semi-automatic .22 bunny rifles,
semi-auto & pump action shotguns!!! These guns were favoured by Australian farmers;
farmers needed these guns in their work to dispatch sick livestock & to
control feral animals. Controlling feral animals is seen as being one of the
important duties of all land owners.
Now we used to be able to carry what was known as a snake gun, this
was usually a cut down .410 shotgun to handgun size for protection against snakes.
These were banned many years ago. Land owners used to be able to carry handguns
for protection against wild boars & stroppy bulls as well as being used for
feral animal control. You can still work without any impediment from carrying a
hand gun on your belt, but you can’t work affectively with a long gun hanging
off your shoulder! Now handguns have also been banned! There was no
justification for banning & confiscating these guns, other than to say it
was in the interest of public safety! Public safety? These people & these
guns played no part in the Port Arthur shootings, & these same law abiding
licensed gun owners were not & are not criminals! Practically every day
vehicle owners are responsible for killing & injuring pedestrians &
other road users, & yet no one blames the car, & the government has
done nothing to make our roads & paths safer for the public! Gun owners
have to pass a written safety exam & a physical test. All vehicle owners
have to do is learn the road rules & pass a driver’s test. There is no
safety training to obtain a driver’s licence!!!
Where am I going? Where is this taking us? Well no where good I
guess, because unless law abiding gun owners back each other; and by this I
mean we all support each other (yes even supporting the muzzle-loader
community!!!), then we are without a doubt going to end up being disarmed! The
very fact that; Possessing any
object specifically for the purpose of self-defence, lethal or non-lethal, is a
criminal offence in Australia is a sure sign that our government
has no regard for “public safety” so using that as an excuse to confiscate our
guns is absolute bullshit, & if that is not the reason for confiscating our
firearms, then you have to ask yourself “what is the reason?”.
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