And look! No need for legislation! Just a proclamation and a drop-dead date of April 11! How DEMOCRATIC can you get?
"I strongly believe that the vast majority of legitimate gun owners in New Zealand will understand that these moves are in the national interest, and will take these changes in their stride," Ardern said.
Take it in stride? I'd sure 'take it in stride'. I often take hot, active, preemptive, shooting civil war in stride.
What are there, somewhere around 4 million Kiwis? I put the over-under on the number that say come and get them at 2. And that might be a little on the high side.
Every totalitarian enjoys surfing a wave of emotion after a Reichstag fire. But when an ice cream truck runs down 99 it just doesn’t generate the same impetus for a ban.
New Zealand is going down a one-way road I’m afraid.
For “public safety”, hmmm. Where have I heard that before? Oh that’s right, the Nazi’s used a registration/confiscation law authorized by the Weimar government for “public safety” to disarm any opponents, real or perceived, on their way to totalitarian rule of Germany. I knew it seemed familiar.
The article says it’s a new law. See? It’s all legal. Think about the children!
Terrorists can kill people quite easily without semi-automatic weapons. Cars, trucks, bombs, and even knives are potential weapons in the wrong hands.
Rather than disarming law abiding citizens who are, in fact, the first line of defense against evil people, how about targeting criminals? For example, this recent mass murderer should be swinging from a rope, in full public display, within a month. I call it fast track for terrorists.
No. This leftist NZ leader would rather disarm honest citizens. We all know the police arrive after the fact in nearly every attack. They are not generally there to stop these murderers until the truck stalls from running over scores of people or the ammunition runs out.
The people supporting gun confiscation want safety and peace. So do we! But let’s be clear, you won’t have peace and security when all of your good men and women are essentially defenseless.
Years ago on my first outing on a trampoline, I bounced beyond my ability and via an overstretched knee gave myself a world class black eye with headache to match. Never tried that stunt again.
Miz PM Ardern; go put some ice on that thing, take two aspirin and in fresh light of morning beg forgiveness of your fellow citizens.
Because ...
GUN CONTROL KILLS !
Just store your semi-automatics and shotguns at your local mosque—everything will be “nice and tidy” then.
You know that’s the first action the Dimwits would take if we allowed them to stack the Supreme Court.
Knee-jerk response. Or maybe just jerk response.
Looks like they have a lot of good thinkers in NZ government. < /s >
You can’t defend innocent people by disarming innocent people.
I guess I’d be a one man revolt.
Stupid idiots are just being disarmed by pols exploiting one event.
All those democrats that were going to leave the country now have a choice between Canada, Venezuela and now New Zealand.
Now if they would just leave.
PLEASE.
Wow, now that those guns are illegal, I guess they don’t have to worry about any more terrorist attacks...
Leftists are criminals who use government for their crimes. This PM is yet another leftist criminal.
The sheep will now just follow their wolf in government’s dictate. Any sheep dog that does not comply will have the government wolf pack come down on them with the full force of the government’s monopoly on force.
This is how it works, folks. This is the United State’s future with leftists in control.
JoMa
UN adopts Arms Treaty in hurried vote (2013)
UN General Assembly Passes Global Gun Control
Damneed Weepins!
All the same useless BS we’ve all heard a million times before.
Thank goodness for the Second Amendment and the NRA.
I’m betting that this broad has no children, correct? It seems to me that an extraordinary number of pacified Western nations are led by childless women nowadays.
Of course, if Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher were also childless, then what I just said basically becomes an indication of nothing.