It’s been more than twelve months since New Zealand’s liberal government bowed to liberal pressure and mandated strict gun confiscation laws in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting in Christchurch. So according to liberal logic, gun crime in New Zealand should be at an all-time low now, right?
Conservatives will not be surprised to discover that that’s the opposite of what has actually happened. In reality, since the government seized the guns from law-abiding citizens, gun crime across the nation has continued to skyrocket.
According to Radio New Zealand, “[L]ast year had the highest rates of gun crime and deaths involving firearms for nearly 10 years.”
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The new gun-control legislation in New Zealand banned all military-style semi-automatic guns and so-called assault rifles. As part of the anti-gun crusade, the government established a mandatory gun buyback.
In 2014, before the implementation of the strict gun control measures, New Zealand had a gun-related death rate of less than 1 per 1 million people. According to Radio New Zealand, the nation recorded 2.4 gun-related deaths per million people in each of the past two years.
So if the goal is to reduce gun violence, the liberal ideology of gun control is an epic failure in the real world.
WesternJournal report: This should not come as much of a surprise. A 2018 study by two pro-gun-control groups found no observable effect on gun homicides and suicide rates in California that could be linked to gun-control laws in the state.
Similarly, if gun control worked as well as liberals claim it does, Chicago would be a peaceful utopia. Instead, the Windy City is an epicenter of gun violence. Last weekend, 104 people became victims of gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city, with 14 losing their lives.
Perhaps it never occurred to gun-control advocates that criminals, who by definition do not obey laws, are not deterred by strict gun-control laws.
As a group of New Mexico sheriffs speaking out against proposed gun-control legislation in their state in 2019 explained, “you’re just taking guns out of law-abiding citizens’ hands.”
“This is not going to affect the criminals out there. They’re going to be able to get guns, and they do not follow the law.”
In America, law-abiding citizens need guns more than ever as left-wing mobs push to “defund the police” and go on rampages of looting and destroying businesses. This anarchistic unrest comes in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody a month ago.
Yet these arguments do not deter liberals. Should Joe Biden win the presidency in November, he has promised to make anti-gun extremist Beto O’Rourke his gun-control czar. Liberals would love to implement the same gun-control measures in America that proved ineffective in New Zealand.
In light of the failure of gun-control measures to reduce gun violence in New Zealand, it might make sense for the nation to reconsider its “assault weapons” bans and gun confiscation program. Instead, New Zealand is doubling down on its gun-control efforts.
According to Reuters, New Zealand implemented a gun registry earlier this month. Residents will be required to update the registry as they buy or sell guns.
It might seem tempting to dismiss the idea of such wide-reaching gun control ever taking effect in the United States. After all, the right to keep and bear arms is explicitly protected in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
However, liberals have made it clear that they see abolishing the Second Amendment as part of their long-range plan. The late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote as much in a 2018 New York Times Op-Ed titled “Repeal the Second Amendment.”
Liberals and Democrats should look at the statistics in New Zealand and here at home before moving ahead with their gun-control agenda — even though these statistics probably will have the New Zealand effect, causing liberals at home to push for more gun control, not less.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
Yep, with strict gun laws, only those with guns make the laws.
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NZ is Englands safe haven After they scuttled the Beurrania the family set NZ up to be their refuge if nuclear war breaks out or some other threats .That’s why they deported all the poor to Australia, to join the convict stock, and made it a nuclear free zone and set up the people to disarmed and basically anglophile loyalists.
Brittania .after the government refused to pay the bill’s to maintain or replace Brittania.
Liberals worldwide are corrupt dumb fucks and all make the same “mistakes”. They all need a bullet to improve their IQ.
John Paul Stevens was unqualified for his station.
If he believed that repealing the 2nd amendment would eliminate our right, he doesn’t understand the nature of rights and had no business being a lawyer, let alone a USSC justice.
On the other hand, if he didn’t actually believe repealing the 2A would eliminate our right, but said it as a sop to lefties, he clearly lacked the integrity required of a justice.