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"To make our community safer, the time to act is now," Ardern said on Monday. "I want to remind people, you can surrender your gun to the police at any time. In fact I have seen reports that people are in fact already doing this. I applaud that effort, and if you are thinking about surrendering your weapon, I would encourage you to do so."
originally posted by: r0xor
Don't nobody cares about assault rifles much on that island of mostly white, peaceful liberals building a tropical utopia.
It's not comparable one iota to the United States regarding the second amendment and not comparable to European countries either, the ethnic make up is completely different as are the politics and issues.
I've got a good way to look at it. If a country doesn't have an amendment in their constitution or bill of rights saying people can own guns, or it was written before semi auto existed, then it doesn't exist, is extra and/or obsolete.
I think Americans should be able to legally own semi automatic rifles. Why? Because there's already so many damn people armed, so many guns floating around, new ones being bought everyday, plenty of nutjobs with the propaganda we have out there, and way too much crime. Too many home invasions, robberies, burglaries.
But them? Lol, no there's no logical reason whatsoever that they shouldn't be regulated. Blame it on the idiot, maybe there's a bunch of other potential white nationalist idiots or people in that society that might think it was an alright thing to do, want to replicate it, think it was cool. I dunno, I don't live there so I don't really care.
Don't nobody cares about assault rifles much on that island of mostly white, peaceful liberals building a tropical utopia.
But them? Lol, no there's no logical reason whatsoever that they shouldn't be regulated.
originally posted by: byteshertz
Regarding NZ lack of constitutional rights:
If you think a piece of paper signed into law gives you your rights, then they are not rights because they were given to you. If it is a right, all the paper does is acknowledge it.