Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Greater Auckland has the lowest rate of legal firearm ownership in the country with less than 3 % of the population being licensed, compared with 10.48 % of the population being licensed to own firearms in Southland. Yet South Auckland has a far higher crime
As we count down to an impending mid-term bloodbath for the Democrats, get ready for wall-to-wall coverage of the 6 January show trials. Trying to drum up a silly protest that descended into a riot is all the Dems have got. On every normal measure, they’re toast. The economy
Well it has finally happened… It took 46 years and, despite all the warnings: For the law is now the lawless ’n the flaw is now the flawless ’n the crime is now accepted ’n the criminal respected ’n now evil gets elected ’n now sinful get selected Welcome to
Much and all as I think Christopher Luxon stuffed up some of his policy announcement on gangs, a gang member crying a river of tears about their human rights being breached makes me laugh. What about the human rights of their victims? A Mongrel Mob leader says poverty is at
According to Jacinda Ardern, despite a massive increase in armed robberies and gun violence, shopkeepers shouldn’t arm themselves. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said arming business owners is not the answer to the recent spate of crimes the small island nation is currently experiencing, including ram raids by
Hunter’s Laptop is the story that just keeps on giving — and, unlike the “Russian collusion” or “Jan 6 Insurrection”, it’s all, 100 per cent true. It’s not just sleaze, either, no matter how much the legacy media try to distract you with the gallons of sleaze that
We live in a time of universal deceit. The media lie. The government lie. The public service lie. Academics lie. We are bombarded, day and night, by a constant litany of lies. Such a state is clearly not conducive to a well-functioning society. Which may well be the point: as
Alexandra Lysova Simon Fraser University Alexandra Lysova is a criminologist with the research interests in intimate partner violence, male and female perpetrators and victims, spousal homicide, and cross-cultural studies of violence. The Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard defamation trial has touched a chord with many people when it comes to
There are some ideas that are so absurd that, as Orwell observed, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that”. Unfortunately, though, the airy speculations of intellectuals can sometimes have devastating real-world consequences. The intellectual onanism of Marx’n’Engels and their ideological heirs are proof
Black Lives Matter describe themselves as “trained Marxists” — but, here’s the thing: even Marx’n’Engels argued that any ideology should be judged by its results, not its intentions (oh, the historical irony!). On that metric, then, BLM is not just an egregious failure, it’s an evil ideology
We often hear about the devastating potential of cyber-terrorism, or the dangerous vulnerability of our interconnected world to natural events like solar flares. Cyber-terrorism is not just a theoretical bee in some think-tank’s bonnet: it’s already happening. We’ve just been incredibly lucky, so far. For example, an
How embarrassing for the Police and also for Jacinda Ardern when, after defending the proposed gun register in Parliament on Tuesday, Police have admitted that they left firearms licence holder information in their former Auckland Headquarters and that this has subsequently been stolen. Firearms licensing information was among stolen property
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson How are we meant to trust Poto Williams with an entire firearms register when she’s already failing to look after licensed firearm owners’ information? When questioned in Parliament, the Minister revealed she has known since 26 May that criminals obtained the private details of
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc The revelation that documents stolen from an abandoned Auckland police station contained the names and addresses of licensed firearm owners has outraged gun owners. Said Chaz Forsyth, President of the Sporting Shooters Association, “The fact that these documents have lain in an empty
It is time for Poto Williams to be removed as Police Minister, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Poto Williams may have skills better suited to other portfolios, but it is clear she is not equipped to be Police Minister, especially at a time when gang activity and violent crime are
