How Long Do You Remember Injustice?

 I don't claim to be 'the sharpest knife in the box' - I am fairly slow thinking and getting slower .. but I TRY. - I have written & posted 1,477 pro gun, pro lawful-shooter blog-posts over the last eight and a bit years with the intention of supporting and promoting legal responsible gun ownership in NZ.

The people who I have shot pistol with over the years both here and in Australia are proven trust-worthy, responsible and safe. Good folk to associate with.

Back in 2014 - I could see the ANTI-GUN campaign was building & strengthening but nothing that I have since tried seems to have made any improvement - & nobody else has managed to slow this growing animosity towards the uppermost law-abiding Kiwis either.

When I got my Firearms License here some forty odd years ago - lifetime licensed shooters were regarded by Police as being special law-abiding - high quality New Zealanders .. Gun owners were "on our side" - while we felt that the police 'were on OUR side'.

Sad how things have changed eh.

In the 'Mother Country' there have recently been so many failures and breaches of trust by London's Metropolitan Police .. so many instances of corruption, racism and criminal behavior scandals, that police there are being referred to as "LIONS LEAD BY DONKIES" . 

Britain's most senior police officer - openly homosexual Commissioner Cressida Rose Dick has finally resigned.

- Are there similar issues with our New Zealand Police management and political direction ..? You might well think that - but I couldn't possibly comment.

"Clamping-Down" on legal law-abiding gun owners while violent gang crime is soaring - is definitely a misdirection of crime fighting resources and finances.

Blaming licensed firearms users for the police neglect that resulted in the Christchurch Mosque Massacre 15 March 2019 by BRENTON TARRANT  - who was not vetted properly - is a futile and distorted response to an awful act of murder.

Forty years ago the then training & testing licensing process was effective and efficient - when enforced properly with adequate resources.

The new process is complex, laborious, expensive, & time consuming, serving mainly as a deterrent to becoming a lawful and safe firearms user. These new regulations, as intended, will definitely reduce the number of legally owned firearms in New Zealand. - But will these laws reduce the number of ILLEGAL guns in New Zealand or their violent use by our criminals - drug dealers and nutters .. of course not.

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Ireland - The Plantation: From the year 1606 forward - some 20-30,000 Scots were carried to the North of Ireland to depose Irish Catholics from their farms. Many of these homeless Irish became 'Tinkers' or 'Travelers' living under canvas from roadside carts - and their dispossessed memories hold to this day.

(- If you'd like to answer one man's 'How Long do you hold a grudge?" Try this ex IRA Man's story. - It's a lot of fun too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vup-kMjfLXw

The British ruled the region of Palestine-Israel from 1917 to 1948 when the State of Israel was formed - Both Jews and Arabs have lived there for many many centuries - episodes of conflict are remembered for generations by many and resentment continues in force ..

How deeply would we delve into the Hindu-Muslim conflicts of that Indian Sub-Continent and it's PARTITION in 1947 under the dissolution of the British Raj into Bangladesh, India and Pakistan?

Do most New Zealanders have a clear knowledge of the settlement of our beautiful islands and the disputed land transfers that resulted in the New Zealand Land Wars?

- Is there a time when historic injustice might be forgotten .. can be forgiven?

- It may be decades before New Zealand's lawful shooters recover from their current loss of rights and property.

Marty K.