99% Of New Zealanders Are Refusing To Surrender
Their Firearms, by Simon Daily, 7/9/19.
New Zealand suffered a great tragedy with their mosque
shooting. But they overcorrected and thought that gun bans were the right
course of action. Turns out the lawful gun owners did not feel the same, as
most of them decided that they would keep their guns.
The New Zealand Prime Minister quickly
proved that guns were not her forte. “The guns used in these terrorist attacks had important
distinguishing features,” Prime Minister Ardern said at a press conference in
Wellington. “First, big capacity, and also their delivery. They had the power
to shoot continuously, but they also had large capacity magazines.”
Contrary to that description, the guns
used by the perpetrator of the mosque attacks, which killed 50 people, did not
“shoot continuously.” They were semi-automatic rifles, meaning they fired once
per trigger pull. And while Ardern referred to “important distinguishing
features,” the only one she mentioned (twice) was “big capacity,” which is a
characteristic of the magazine rather than the gun itself.”
She is just another uninformed
politician making bad policy. Since the Ban, very few gun owners have come
forward.
“As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been
turned over. There are an estimated 1.5 million guns—with an unknown number
subject to the new prohibition on semiautomatic firearms—in the country
overall.
Traditionally relaxed in its approach to
firearms regulation, and enjoying a low crime rate, New Zealand has no firearms
registration rule. That means authorities have no easy way of knowing what guns
are in circulation or who owns them.
“These weapons are unlikely to be confiscated by police because
they don’t know of their existence,” Philippa Yasbek of Gun Control
NZ admitted. “These will become black-market weapons if their owners
choose not to comply with the law and become criminals instead.”
They SHOULD hold on to them. Guns can be tools
of defense. Law-abiding citizens are not going to use them for anything more
than personal defense or hunting. They should never have been banned in the
first place. Good for them standing up to an overbearing government that plans
to leave them defenseless.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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