After criminal madman murders 50 in New Zealand, govt responds by passing laws that restrict the law-abiding (??) (healthcare, regular)

[Enigma777]

New Zealand must have the least amount of bureaucracy in the world. One week!

[Pilot1]

Did the Prime Minister ban her armed guards from having guns? Why is she better than everyone else?

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Oakformonday

Why don't we start with answering the question. Why do you need an assault rifle? Other than you have a right to one. Thanks.

I don't need one. I use a semi auto modern sporting rifle to hunt sounders of hogs with.

[TamaraSavannah]

Well, like I said in another post,


let's hear it for a government that bans 60-70 years of technology because they believe their population is too ignorant to handle the present.

[TreeBeard]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

Did the Prime Minister ban her armed guards from having guns? Why is she better than everyone else?

Yeah, that's a brilliant argument. LOL.

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Now, let's see how many "Assault Rifles" get turned over to the Government.
They already have Britain as an example. Placed into Bondage rather quickly, once they gave up their only way to fight an over reaching MASTER.
Just think if the Slaves were armed... Would they have been slaves.

I wonder if YOU would have been supporting slaves rights to arm themselves actually instead of the rhetorical what about'ism. The slaves surely would not have been perpetually enslaved had they been "allowed" to arm themselves. I wish they would have been able to fight the forced bondage they were fated to endure.

I own a couple guns and believe in some form of gun control. My question is why people think they need an assault rifle personally? My opinion is that a certain demographic watches too much TV......

[workingclasshero]

Originally Posted by Oakformonday

Why don't we start with answering the question. Why do you need an assault rifle? Other than you have a right to one. Thanks.

why don't we start with you defining what an assault weapon is???


the fascist liberals can not define what "military style" is
or..... what an assault weapon is




before he should be proposing a law the definition needs to be clearly established


define assault weapon.....

an ar15 is NOT an assault weapon

define (you want a ban/regulation) of what an assault weapon is

everyone of these ? is was an ar15 could have....with the exception of caliber size (and even that too)

is it caliber size
is it magazine(round storage) size
is it semi-auto
is it a handguard to protect the hands from a hot barrel
is it that it can have a scope mounted
is it that it can have a bipod mounted
is it because its (as the rolling stones said) Painted Black


nearly everyone of those option is available on nearly every weapon...to include handguns

the only one that is not available on nearly every weapon is: and its NOT available on the ar15 without an ILLEGAL mod....is it full auto

the ar15 is available:
in different calibers
in different magazine(round storage) size
in different styles of handguard to protect the hands from a hot barrel
in different scope mounts
in different bipod mounted
in different colors

nearly every rifle has those different options,,,over 65% of ALL rifles are semi

so if YOU are going to say BAN assault weapons LIKE the ar15...you are meaning nearly all rifles....AND HANDGUNS...... so make a definition otherwise you ARE SAYING ban them all..including handguns and pump shotguns


what about my tube magazine lever action Henry 44mag rifle (like what the "Rifleman" had but full length )


so which is it ...ban an UNDEFINED set of weapons(which really means ban all).. or maintain our constitutional rights that shall no be infringed

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

I wonder if YOU would have been supporting slaves rights to arm themselves actually instead of the rhetorical what about'ism. The slaves surely would not have been perpetually enslaved had they been "allowed" to arm themselves. I wish they would have been able to fight the forced bondage they were fated to endure.

I own a couple guns and believe in some form of gun control. My question is why people think they need an assault rifle personally? My opinion is that a certain demographic watches too much TV......

You must watch too much because a real assault rifle is select fire. Did your descendants own slaves? Mine didn't.

[No_Recess]

Will the government of New Zealand turn in its guns too?

The people of Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Timor...well...it's too late for them as they were brutally butchered by that government. Perhaps a future child in a far away land could be saved if NZ's government bans itself from owning weapons.

[mascoma]

Originally Posted by boxus

AR-15 has not been used in every mass shooting since 2012, ridculous.

But hey, as I said in another thread, a foreigner rolls into NZ, kills a bunch of people, yet the government's response is to ban its citizens from owning. Makes sense.

Can you think of a mass shooting where someone didn't use a semi-automatic? I can't. It would be hard to kill 50 people with a six shot revolver.


Look at this chart from 2013 - virtually every one is a semi-automatic.



https://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-r-0057.htm