Was the gun buy-back a success? Unequivocally, no. How do we know it wasn’t a success? Because not a peep has been heard from politicians or Police about how they achieved stunning results through the buy-back. Chris Geddis has his own thoughts on the buy-back in the Hawkes Bay
By Abigail Hauslohner, Deanna Paul and Kim Bellware. The Texas Tribune. “Texas law protecting armed churchgoers draws national attention after White Settlement shooting” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Oh the irony! Imagine if the first person criminalised under the new act was a senior cop in possession of an illegal firearm. I bet he won’t get 5 years imprisonment that the law abiding LFOs are threatened with, especially with an in-house investigation. The officer allegedly assaulted his
My recent posts about this subject (here and here) have resulted in some fascinating comments from readers ranging from “If Grace Millane had survived her ordeal and laid a complaint, would she have been seen as a ‘woman scorned’? After all, she was in his room by choice, the sex
When I wrote the post “Sexual Harassment? Evidently Not”, my main premise was that allegations of sexual impropriety can be so easily weaponised for retribution or for personal or political gain with little or no corroborative evidence and too often, the damage done is irreparable even if later the allegations
Press release: NZ Outdoors Party “After today thousands of law-abiding New Zealanders will become criminals and face up to 7 years jail for possessing what was a lawful and authorised firearm”. Alan Simmons co-leader of the NZ Outdoors Party said “The police attitude is threatening and intimidating with TV adverts
The police seem to have become extremely trigger happy of late. They have just shot a man (admittedly from dodgy Flaxmere), but the report of the shooting should set alarm bells ringing at what seems to be becoming a habit: The man who was shot at Flaxmere Primary School yesterday
Sir Ron Brierley reportedly arrested at Sydney airport, charged with possession of child pornography 7news.com.au/politics/law-and-order/sir-ron-brierley-arrested-at-sydney-airport-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography
In a recent case involving an Australian woman who murdered her children, there was something particularly notable about public commentary. Almost every commenter expressed sympathy for the murderer, with much sorrowful head-shaking about mental health. Compare that with the response to, say, the man who threw his young daughter to
I’m not a Catholic. I abhor paedophilia. I’m not particularly enamoured of George Pell. Yet, I can’t escape the uneasy feeling that the most egregious miscarriage of justice in Australia since the Chamberlains has been perpetrated in Pell’s case. What’s even more telling is that
Another scandal is engulfing the Catholic Church. At a time when the Vatican has taken its most concrete steps to address a long ordeal with sex abuse and coverups, a growing chorus of nuns is speaking out about the suffering they have endured at the hands of the priesthood, including
No matter how mightily the lying legacy media strive to hide the truth, it’s impossible to read the proceedings of the Trump impeachment hearings and come away with any other conclusion that the only rottenness and corruption being exposed is the Democrats’. While the legacy media have also desperately
McBlog2 Radix Read all the concerns from the police – and then ask yourself, whose opinion do you trust more? The Police who deal with this every day, OR Chloe, Andrew, Helen and the Drug Foundation? Police concerns: * One of the proposed benefits is to free up police resources but that
The Police have become overbearing and threatening in their dealings with Licenced Firearms Owners. They have been aided and abetted by an out of control Police Minister, Stuart Nash. Currently, they are ramming through legislation for a gun register despite the fact that no gun register anywhere in the world
A corrupt Auckland cop who sold police database information to gangs has just been jailed. His conviction illustrates as clearly as possible exactly why having a gun register is a terrible idea. A former police officer who admitted illegally accessing the police database to leak information to an organised criminal
