On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 06:45:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Post by Lawrence D'OliveiroThe Christchurch Muslim community has become so riled up, they have
joined Christians in a church to make their feelings known about the
Governments attitude
<https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/07/govt-turning-its-back-on-victims-of-march-15-attack-imam-says/>.
One issue is the seeming rolling back of support services since the
2019 Ides of March massacre. Another issue is the threat of the same
thing happening to gun laws. The Minister concerned, Nicole McKee, has
a long connection with the gun lobby, and she has yet to convince
anybody she can consider the issue with an unbiased eye.
Now seems like a good time to post something that was posted shortly
after after the Christchurch massacre.
STICK TO YOUR GUNS.
In their hasty response to the act of multiple murder that took place
in Christchurch in March 2019, the government decided, by decree, that
all semi automatic "military style" weapons were to be confiscated. No
process, no consultation, nothing. The gun grabbing had started even
before the bodies had been buried.
Nowhere in the mainstream media was it even hinted that there maybe a
problem with this. The crime that took place in Christchurch that day
was always going to happen in this country because NZ is among the
softest of targets. Multiple murderers always target areas where
people are defenceless.
Whenever these brutal killings are carried out, the mainstream media
can't shut up about it for days, weeks and even months afterwards,
labouring their own talking points to the exclusion of all others and
giving the perpetrator what he so desperately craves; publicity.
If the government believes that disarming the people will discourage
further incidents of multiple murder, they are sadly mistaken. The
greatest number of people killed by a terrorist with a gun was 69 (as
far as I know), by Anders Brevik in liberal Norway (plus another eight
with a fertilizer bomb). That is fewer than the Nice attack in France
in which 86 people were killed without involving firearms. The 9/11
terrorists killed almost 3000 people without a single shot being
fired. The Oklahoma bomber murdered 168 people, also without a gun.
It is therefore quite plain that if someone is determined to to murder
as many people as possible, guns and ammo would not be the first items
on the shopping list.
What the media never reports is those incidents when some lunatic bent
on mass murder is stopped by a good guy with a gun. The mainstream
media will not be diverted from their own narrative in which they
would have everyone believe that fewer guns make for a safer society.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Gun confiscation works only on compliant, law abiding people. Taking
guns away from good citizens won't make a damn bit of difference.
Criminals will not be surrendering their guns to the authorities, with
the result that only the bad guys and the government will be packing
heat.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right OF THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed".
So reads the second amendment of the US Constitution. The
constitution, being binding on the government, essentially codifies
the principle that self defence is a fundamental human right and that
the government has no business violating that right.
Self defence is not the only reason for the second amendment. In fact
it is not even the main reason. The constitutional right to keep and
bear arms was primarily contrived to enable the people to defend
themselves against their own government. The framers understood that a
well armed citizenry would serve as a significant deterrent to any
potential tyrant.
It is also worth noting that every brutal dictator who has ever
bludgeoned his way to absolute power, kicked off the campaign of
murder and torture by first promising to "help out the little guy" and
then later taking steps to disarm the population. The gun confiscation
legislation that the Ardern government enacted should not surprise
anyone who is familiar with the behaviour of past dictators. All this
happened with the approval of a weak and gutless opposition.
DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR GUNS TO THE GOVERNMENT. YOUR FREEDOM MAY ONE DAY
COME TO DEPEND ON THEM.
Bill.