Hidden in my home there is a police approved-certified firearms safe bolted through the floor with four approved bolts and a heavy steel plate that bridges across & under a heavy floor joist.
That gun safe cost money .. as did having the steel plate engineered and fitted by a builder - and there is a cost to the police regularly inspecting and approving my security. - New Zealand Police state that all lawfully owned & licensed New Zealand firearms must be stored securely in approved conditions - while my ammunition has to be locked away under separate security - yet they also repeatedly claim that the criminal drug supply GANGS get all their weapons from licensed sport shooters.
When murderer Brenton Tarrant committed his 2019 merciless racist slaughter of innocents - Jacinda's NZ Government immediately enacted long prepared & waiting Police prohibitions and extreme restrictions upon lawful firearms owners.
But it was the Police that gave Tarrant his NZ Firearms Licence while disregarding their own licensing process .. they then issued him permits to purchase the thousands of rounds he used in his killings.
The criminal use of weapons by gangs is unabated while the NZ Police Training College at Porirua is closed for lack of funds until 2022 & not accepting some 2,000 waiting new applicant recruits.
It is not the ownership of firearms by law-abiding citizens that is the problem .. the violent criminal use of weapons here stems directly from the poverty and poor living conditions of many New Zealanders at the bottom of society - and the under resourcing of Police, Prison Services, - Health Services, Housing, - and Education.
- When the Licensing authority does it's job diligently .. lawful licensed firearms users join a highly select and trained part of New Zealand society - whos members have no known association with gangs, - no criminal record nor any history of violent behavior, - no history of drug abuse or mental illness - and they have the recorded statements of personal referees prepared to state that the applicant IS A FIT AND PROPER PERSON to possess firearms. - And lately they have managed to complete a THIRTY-FIVE PAGE Application and to satisfy that checking process.
Lawful gun owners are neither evil nor violent nutters .. they are civilized well behaved folk who enjoy the exercise of marksmanship skills, - the 'Outdoors', - and the benefits of wild harvesting game animals and controlling introduced pests.
Imposition of more & more gun rules designed to reduce the number of legal firearms in the country has zero effect on criminal gangs making money from selling recreational drugs - whereas Tax reforms, and decent jobs for the young, - employed building Homes - Hospitals, and Detention Facilities would go some way to reduce crime.
- Most Government policy is all 'spin' and BULLSHIT .. Nero Fiddling while Rome burns - Mind you even that story is a "Literary Construct" - while that Nero was a political leader who kicked his pregnant wife to death before marrying a young boy who he then castrated to make into a woman ..
Politicians eh ..
Marty K.
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