womble wrote:Government overregulation inevitably leads to a black market. ( Thanks Johnny you d**khead.) And In this case a very lucrative one. All you can do is make sure you have the best security you can afford. No doubt black market demand well exceeds supply
But what is the alternative wanneroo ?
We follow the path of the US ? A school shooting every 8 days on average.
Hopefully the police on the ground dealing with this have a voice In how to respond to it. I think the premier has a good relationship with the current commissioner. Hopefully they have some very honest conversations because shootings in Melbourne make the news every night now. And they are isolated incidents.
Give them whatever they need. Outsource LAPD lol
I don’t think Howard wanted this to be his legacy. So the pressure will be on.
Realistically I don’t think there’s much more they can do to lafos. We’re already in a permantent state of bent over touching our toes. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that wont solve the problem
Well here’s hoping anyway.
There isn't a school shooting every 8 days in the USA. That phony stat got debunked as it turned out things like people committing suicide in the parking lot or gangs shooting one another on a Saturday night near a school were included.
Actually I think the US is the solution. We had a significant crime problem that grew post welfare 1965 and that reached it's peak into the 1980's. At that time it was actually difficult to legally carry a firearm for protection. Finally states began passing concealed carry legislation and people started shooting back at the criminals. Personally I can remember in the 1980's and early 1990's how criminality and homicide were much more common than today. Then I remember the tide turning as criminals started to end up dead as people began shooting back. Since the early 1990's our homicide rate has fallen by more than half and the only places in the USA where homicide is common is in a few urban areas with very strict gun laws so the criminals still own the streets. The vast majority of the land mass of the USA is statistically some of the safest in the world. If you take my area for instance, we've got tons of guns everywhere and in most houses. If you decide you want a career as a house burglar, you might knock over one house and get away with it. But statistically by the second or third house your career will probably come to a swift end with lots of lead poisoning.
If you look at the crime wave that has been sweeping Melbourne over the past couple years, the reason it goes on is because it can. Criminals have no real penalty so they run wild and the governments response is to further attack law abiding people rather than the criminals. And it will get worse too. Until people can shoot back and they stack a few criminal bodies up, it isn't going to end.
The other thing that changed in the USA was the castle doctrine and other self defense laws governing use of force in public. Currently in Australia people do not have much in the way of legal options for self defense. Criminals obviously know that.