Bruce from West Oz
New member
I've had a few "days off", and was beginning to feel a bit of fire in my belly again -- then this. I have to come back on TFL because, frankly, people, there's no one else I can let off a bit of steam to .... and at present it's coming out of my ears and every other orifice ...
Let me explain .....
We had two shootings today in Australia -- one a police officer in the Northern Territory, shot and killed by an armed fugitive -- the other a manager of a bar on a University campus, shot and killed by a disgruntled former employee. The revolver was unregistered, untraceable, and he had never held any sort of firearms licence or permit.
The ABC's "7.30 Report" on TV ran a piece on "Did The Gun Buyback Work?" Ah-hah, thought I, they've finally woken up to the fact that it was a waste of money and only affected legitimate gunowners.
But no, silly me -- the piece was about how the Buyback failed because it didn't get enough guns! There were still (gasp!) people out there with "prohibited weapons"!
They gave great amounts of time to the spokesman from Gun Control Australia (an expatriate American, incidentally), who said the "only answer would be to conduct virtual house-to-house searches across Australia". He then went on to explain that this was unlikely because [/b] the police are under-resourced[/b]! Excuse me, did I miss something?? Don't civil liberties come into this at all?? The only thing stopping house-to-house searches en masse is a lack of manpower??
But hold on, there is a saviour for the Gun Control cause -- the Superintendent of one of Victoria's larger metropolitan regions.
He, off his own bat, has introduced a system where:
(a) If your firearms licence expires, the police front up to your house, demand to see your licence and seize your firearms -- and then search your house to make sure you don't have any others!
(b) If you are involved in a domestic dispute the police "seize your weapons" and search your house to see if you have any other firearms!
He was quite smug about it, and seemed sure that he could do this under existing legislation. In fact, his officers have seized and consigned for destruction 2 000 firearms.
"Great," said the Gun Control Australia mouthpiece.
And the presenter, a smug little prick named Kerry O'Brien said, as he was closing the segment, that "police forces across the Nation are looking at implementing the same system"!!
As far as I am concerned, that's the end of democracy and freedom in Australia. We are now a Police State.
BT
Let me explain .....
We had two shootings today in Australia -- one a police officer in the Northern Territory, shot and killed by an armed fugitive -- the other a manager of a bar on a University campus, shot and killed by a disgruntled former employee. The revolver was unregistered, untraceable, and he had never held any sort of firearms licence or permit.
The ABC's "7.30 Report" on TV ran a piece on "Did The Gun Buyback Work?" Ah-hah, thought I, they've finally woken up to the fact that it was a waste of money and only affected legitimate gunowners.
But no, silly me -- the piece was about how the Buyback failed because it didn't get enough guns! There were still (gasp!) people out there with "prohibited weapons"!
They gave great amounts of time to the spokesman from Gun Control Australia (an expatriate American, incidentally), who said the "only answer would be to conduct virtual house-to-house searches across Australia". He then went on to explain that this was unlikely because [/b] the police are under-resourced[/b]! Excuse me, did I miss something?? Don't civil liberties come into this at all?? The only thing stopping house-to-house searches en masse is a lack of manpower??
But hold on, there is a saviour for the Gun Control cause -- the Superintendent of one of Victoria's larger metropolitan regions.
He, off his own bat, has introduced a system where:
(a) If your firearms licence expires, the police front up to your house, demand to see your licence and seize your firearms -- and then search your house to make sure you don't have any others!
(b) If you are involved in a domestic dispute the police "seize your weapons" and search your house to see if you have any other firearms!
He was quite smug about it, and seemed sure that he could do this under existing legislation. In fact, his officers have seized and consigned for destruction 2 000 firearms.
"Great," said the Gun Control Australia mouthpiece.
And the presenter, a smug little prick named Kerry O'Brien said, as he was closing the segment, that "police forces across the Nation are looking at implementing the same system"!!
As far as I am concerned, that's the end of democracy and freedom in Australia. We are now a Police State.
BT