New Zealand decided to go the way of its closest neighbor, Australia, in enacting strict gun control regulations on its citizens.
Unlike in the United States people in Australia and New Zealand have no Constitutional right to bear arms which makes it simpler for their governments to enact such laws.
But people have a desire inside of them to self-governance and New Zealand learned that when it did a mandatory buyback after a mass shooting in March.
Mandatory buyback, of course, is liberal code language for gun confiscation. And that is why American liberals loved it.
“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like. We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
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“This is what action against gun violence looks like,” California Rep. Barbara Lee said.
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Now New Zealand’s Council of Licensed Firearms Owners has said, big surprise, that their gun confiscation scheme was an “unmitigated failure.”
“We have moved to stop the sale, and now we’ve moved to stop the ongoing circulation of these weapons,” left wing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said when she started the confiscation.
The government has been able to grab 47,000 of the banned “assault rifles” and around 2,000 have been modified to fit within the law, The Washington Post reported.
At least two-thirds of the weapons that were deemed illegal after the Christchurch massacre are still in their owner’s hands.
The buyback program, “lacked fair and reasonable compensation for legally purchased items,” Nicole McKee, secretary of the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners, said.
Police Minister Stuart Nash disagreed with McKee, saying that he believed the program was successful in stealing, sorry, buying back the majority of the firearms.
“I just do not believe there’s 170,000. I believe we’ve got the majority of these guns in,” he said to New Zealand’s 1News.
But the fact is they did not get every gun. They cannot even agree on what percentage they got. And the reason is because people have a burning desire in their souls to be free.
These legal firearms owners did not walk into a mosque and execute people because they had some psychotic idea that people of color, or of another religion, were somehow inferior to them.
They did not decide to murder innocent people who were praying to advance some political narrative in their demented heads.
One man did that. Only one man. And punishing hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people for the actions of one lunatic is not justice.
It is a Band Aid designed to make people feel good while not accomplishing anything.
It is pretending to have an answer for something there is no answer for. Evil has been on the planet from the day Eve ate the apple and it remains.
There are laws against rape, murder, theft and all types of nefarious crimes that happen daily in every nation on Earth. No law stops them.
The only thing these laws do are remove a human being’s God given right to self defense and give governments more power. And ultimately, that is the goal of the liberal.
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