Consider the ramifictions of this

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Laws that criminalise conduct not wrong in itself to prevent crime before it occurs makes the behaviour of criminals the measure of the rights and freedoms that the law will permit to the innocent law abiding gun owner. Semi automatic rifles, pump action shotguns and other banned firearms are considered dangerous in the hands of criminals, thus no one shall have them.

These laws tell the law-abiding that their rights and freedoms depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the lawless,the law will thus only permit the law-abiding to have only such rights and freedom as criminals will allow.

Firearms laws or in fact any law which restricts the freedom of the law-abiding because of the behaviour of the guilty in no sense "fights" crime. Australias law makers has allowed its fear of crime, craving for safety, to turn the force of law against the law abiding. So, far from fighting crime the crminalisation of otherwise innocent activities shows us a society in retreat from crime. This then is a society accommodating itself to crime.

Society should instead be outraged over crime and strongly direct its energies against criminals. A righteously indignant society would resolve to surrender no ground or forfeit no freedoms to the lawless.

Society does not control crime ever by forcing the law abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behaviour of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behaviour of the law abiding.

Our law makers as usual take the easy way out and nail the innocent once again with more pointless laws and restrictions. Knee-jerk reaction politics (Howard take note) and a feeding frenzy media perpetuate all of the above.

Blighs comment on the recent Goldcoast gun incidents - If the gunlaws of this state need looking at we will do that. It will do nothing to stop the criminal missuse of firearms or them obtaining the same.

The message from the lawmakers seems to be that of attack the innocent gunowner and punish him/her for the actions of the criminal, not attacking the real issues, for they are too hard. Most pollies have no balls, remember the vote on Howards gun laws, what a farce, they all caved in to monetary blackmail for the states.

The ban mentality of our pollies does nothing to fight crime - the drug problem is worse now than ever before, yet drugs are banned.




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