by Heckler303 » 14 Nov 2017, 4:54 pm
Alright. This will be rant-ish so bear with me.
So as a few of you know, I've been a younger shooter and been into the sport properly since I was 15. Now I'm an 18 year old and the bartender doesn't have to worry about serving me cider anymore, I can ditch the minor's permit and go for my full license.
And so I did. Application was bought, took it home, filled in the blanks + applied for Cat A, B, & H to tick all the boxes. Providing evidence for each section as well, signed and posted. So it seemed that this would be going along pretty smoothly. Besides, I've held those permits for 3 years beforehand, that's evidence enough of my ability and competence in firearms usage.
Now forward 3 months later. Upon seeing a letter from TASPOL (Yes, they will be named, but no names within their little gang spoken) I received word from firearms services. My face soon went from intrigument to disappointment faster than you could say 'We cannot grant you permission to continue". Reading onward, apparently their reasoning for this decision was based off of the most ridiculous of clauses.
I'd made a few posters back in college days when presented with other ones of the type. The most notable of these being one that I placed against this big, horrificly coloured Graphic Design example. It was a political poster that said "GENDER IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE". (Cringe.)
After me and my friend looked at it, we decided to pin a poster as a note to it saying "There are only two genders/ XY and XX decide, not you." These were made in various types as someone kept pulling them down. Eventually as more of 'their' posters kept getting put up, me and friends would make ones to combat them. Like Vets Before Ref's, self defense rights, freedom of speech, you name it. You can disagree with these if you may but that's not the important thing to discuss here. I got into trouble with campus authorities over it, managed to explain my way out and thinking it was all over, never thought back on it.
So according to TASPOL, who god knows how found out about our political poster fiascoes, since they had (quote) "Political and religious (wtf) connotations", they can not grant me permission to continue my license unless I under a full psychiatric evaluation. Until then I am considered a potential danger to society according to the desk jockies who wrote me this letter. Never mind being a proud member of multiple financial clubs and an upstanding member of society, and plenty of character references being available on my person.
Where they even told about the poster's content? I'd hardly stick up a poster citing to drive aboriginals off cliffs or install a Nazi regime within tassie, but according to TASPOL that's the level of content we were making. Absolutely ridiculous, what ever happened to freedom of expression in this country? You can parade yourself as a Demiqueer fryingpan-sexual non binary fruit loop and post anything you want, but as soon as an opposing viewpoint arrives, the person putting up horrible nasty posters (As if "There are two genders" is hateful mind you.) are automatically ultra-right wing full on Neo-Nazi bigots.
I'm sick to death of political correctness controlling our everyday lives, this is just an example of how far the authorities will take it.
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303!Title_II wrote:If you carry a fun in Australia you will go to jail.