It is an inconvenient fact that not only has the gun buyback from licenced law-abiding gun owners not made New Zealand safer, but the number of shootings in New Zealand since then has increased from maybe once a year (if that) to monthly if not weekly shootings being reported in the media.
Today marks the second anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks, in which military style semi-automatic weapons, purchased legally, were used to gun down 51 innocent worshippers.
That sparked tougher gun laws and the much debated firearms buy-back.
But in 2020, gun crime hit a new peak.
Police figures show 2399 people were charged with 4542 firearm-related offences, nearly double that of a decade earlier.
rnz.co.nz
This tells us two things.
1.Disarming the law-abiding was a virtue-signalling mistake of epic proportions.
2. Criminals do not obey the law and retained all their already illegal guns. (Shocking I know).
The cold hard fact is that the wrong group of people were targeted by the Government.
Instead of the costly buyback from the law-abiding, the Government should have focussed on taking guns off the gangs and other criminals.
It would have saved the country millions of dollars and would have penalised those who are most likely to harm others… criminals.
