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If they can save one child....Seems that the 'buy-back' scheme might cost as much as half of New Zealand's annual GDP.
Hmmmmmmmm.
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If they can save one child....Seems that the 'buy-back' scheme might cost as much as half of New Zealand's annual GDP.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Goldstein!The point being that they were NOT illegal until the snowflake government SAID that they were illegal.
'1984' anybody?
Actually, I had a thought the other day...The phrase "buy back" should be banned unless the item was originally purchased from the government. It also reinforces the idea that firearms ownership is a privilege because of the underlying implication that all firearm ownership begins with state ownership of the items, and so of course when the state wants them "back" -- it isn't a big deal.
We don't think about government confiscation this way in other areas -- when the government takes a person's house to build a road, it's called eminent domain, not "house buy back".
They're not banned there. Only nuclear powered or armed ships are barred. There was a 30 year gap in visits but they occur today if the PM gives consent after being convinced there are no nuclear weapons or power on the vessel. The US only offers to send compliant ships there at this time.Neither will our U.S. Navy since they are banned there due to our nu-clear arse-nal.
Not uncommon. I had to prove myself worthy of moving to the US. One can't just move and live and enjoy life whereever one pleases in the 21st century apperantly. In the parts of the world where guns aren't a right, people are extremely fearful of them. Only bad guys have guns, is the attitude. While, yes, guns are made to take life, many fail to understand the concept of self-defense. It's just so foreign to lots of people that Automatically Americans are "crazy" and bad and whatnot with all their guns. I thought that way too before becoming more educated on the subject. I had plenty conversations with family overseas where I explained the concept of a gun just being an object and how stupid those ",gun free zones" are. The reply is always "but it cant be that everyone is waving a gun around in schools/hospitals/so forth". Well... thats all illegal already, I tell them. Its about having something in your pocket, like your keys or your wallet, in case something bad happens!. answer is: but still..... it cant be....I used to communicate with a NZ lady on a long gone forum and in a few emails several years ago.
She became more and more anti gun and anti American in her own way.
She got divorced, moved to the south (?) island for a new life (Not!) and that did not work out so she moved back to the north island. Boy, oh boy when it came to her DREAM LIFE and tons more. What a shame too. What an expensive move to there and back again!
Previously, we could talk about other matters but I tended not to like her comments in political matters when she tried to LUMP all Americans into the FAR right or FAR left and nothing in the MIDDLE that had views - strong views in specific matters. Sigh, you know, as in GUNS and in our own Constitution/Bill of Rights. She did NOT understand how many Americans thought in that matter.
We were polite and eventually we had nothing to talk about on a regular basis.
Side notes:
The one NZ man who posted the VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING down there got 21 months for that and some other crapola. It was on American, NZ and other overseas news websites. On the boob tube and radio too.
Beautiful country from what I have seen but not in person.
I knew a Nam Veteran who lived there for a few years on and off in the early 70's. He moved back to TENN the last that I heard.
There is a man who used to post on another forum who is becoming a citizen there. He and his wife work there. He used to write about it and how he had to PROVE HIMSELF WORTHY to move, live and work there. So much income and other things.
I heard that housing was very expensive there compared to the average income but I do not know what it is like now.
The NZ PM really goes on and on about GUNS and keeps bringing up Americans and more when she does interviews. I am beginning to think or know that many people really DO NOT LIKE US or downright hate us because of our GUNS and, of course, in many other things. I read a lot of news from overseas too.
Cate
In the parts of the world where guns aren't a right, people are extremely fearful of them.
In other words, every other country in the world.... If I'm not mistaken, the Good Ol U S of A is the only country that has the right to bear arms in it's constitution. Not Israel, not Switzerland.
Edit: Only 3 countries recognize citizen's right to firearms... Mexico (well that's odd given all the restrictions), Guatemala (really?), and US.
When I did a deep study of Middle Eastern culture, I read Yemen had something along those lines. A search found this the statute is Law Regulating Carrying Firearms, Ammunition and their Trade. Article 9 states: "The citizens of the Republic shall have the right to hold the necessary rifles, machine guns, revolvers, and hunting rifles for their personal use with an amount of ammunition for the purpose of legitimate defense." How much that is respected has varied, but in terms of civilian held arms, they are the second most armed society, after the United States.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Saudia Arabia's difficulty in invading and subduing Yemen?When I did a deep study of Middle Eastern culture, I read Yemen had something along those lines. A search found this the statute is Law Regulating Carrying Firearms, Ammunition and their Trade. Article 9 states: "The citizens of the Republic shall have the right to hold the necessary rifles, machine guns, revolvers, and hunting rifles for their personal use with an amount of ammunition for the purpose of legitimate defense." How much that is respected has varied, but in terms of civilian held arms, they are the second most armed society, after the United States.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Saudia Arabia's difficulty in invading and subduing Yemen?