Machete ban Victoria down under

Hickory n steel said:
If you go to any major city that has asinine laws like this and interview people on the street, a large number if not majority of them will be in agreement with these laws because they fell for it.
They fell for the lies and actually believe that banning these " scary " objects will save lives.
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these weak minded folks ain't just in the big city....they're also in the suburbs and even in the country. ever heard of a fudd.....

common sense tells ya if someone is violent and wants to commit violence...... whatever tool they can get ahold of is what will be used. whether it's a canoe paddle, a glass beer mug, pool cue or even a rock from the garden. along with things they cant ban....like feet, fists, knees and elbows, etc......

banning tools tells me they don't care about reducing the violent crime rates at all. what they seem to care about is showing declines in violent crime tool use on a report. to look good and perceived by voters that they are effective and not actually solving or addressing the real issues that cause violent crimes.

like i said the uk has been playing this game for years. their gun violent crime rates have dropped to bout nothing since the "gun ban," yet the overall violent crime rates have stayed the same and in some places actually gotten higher.....as the violent offenders just switched tools is all.

regardless appears aussies are also playing this trick the voters game.....and it doesn't work. never has and never will.......
 
jbmonkey said:
banning tools tells me they don't care about reducing the violent crime rates at all. what they seem to care about is showing declines in violent crime tool use on a report. to look good and perceived by voters that they are effective and not actually solving or addressing the real issues that cause violent crimes.
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That's exactly what I was saying before.

They can reduce the number of " machete attacks " on paper, and people feel safer because those scary machetes are illegal now and less people are getting attacked with them.
Many people don't stop to think about the general crime rates though, otherwise they'd see that nothing has changed but the type of weapon being used in the same old crimes.
 
See, this is why we threw the tea into Boston Harbor. Maybe it's time to dump the Fosters into Sydney Harbor mates, I feel for you.
 
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Steggy said:
Any blade over 20cm but these laws only pertain to the state of Victoria not the whole continent! The laws shall protect one’s people!
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Victoria today, nationwide tomorrow. These misguided laws can spread like aggressive types of cancer. I live in the anti-gun state of Massachusetts, just north of Boston. I cringe when the FUDD gun owners openly support handgun bans, semiautomatic rifle/shotgun bans, ever-more-restrictive licensing schemes...as long as nobody comes for their bolt-action .30/06, lever-action .30-30 deer rifle, bolt-action .22 plinking rifle or their over/ under 12 gauge trap & skeet shotguns. FUDDS make me sick. Just wait till their favorite manually-operated scoped centerfire rifle get called a "deadly sniper rifle" by liberal lawmakers and banned outright. That will get the FUDD crowd's attention for sure!
 
Another day another machete attack in Melbourne and the masses calling to bring forward the ban. I agree, I mean once it’s illegal to own them criminals will just hand them in.

Incredible that machetes have been in Australia since the 18th century but haven’t been a problem until now. Almost as though they’re not the issue?
 
Bellicus said:
I think the biggest problem is that the Sudanese Youth Gangs in Victoria use Machetes as their weapon of choice, no different to what they did in their own country, perhaps it's not the Machetes we should be banning, just saying.
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Steggy said:
Are you being racist? These people are Australians!
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How is that racist? Cause he didn’t say “Australian-Sudanese Youth Gangs?”

Reality isn’t racism.
 
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The sad thing is that in Australia both youth crime and crime in general has been declining for decades. It's just that the media beats it up to the point where most of the general public gain the perception that it's out of control. The machete ban is one of many examples of this. It's embarrassing frankly
 
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