Five years ago, New Zealand decided to ban "assault weapons"--well, except for the government--and it has the expected result as this TTAG article relates:
However, since the suspension of semi-auto gun ownership in that country as a response to [the 2019 Christchurch] killings, the country has actually witnessed more violent crime taking place, much of it blamed on a rise in gang violence.
“Over the last five years gangs have recruited more than 3,000 members, a 51-percent increase. At the same time, we’ve seen a significant escalation in gang-related violence, public intimidation and shootings, with violent crime up 33 percent,” Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said in a press release last week.
Now the country is considering--and I emphasize the "considering" part--overhauling its gun laws, including possibly--maybe--relaxing the ban on owning semi-auto firearms. I personally don't believe that it will happen. The country is too feminized and socialist (but I repeat myself) to do anything that would encourage personal responsibility for one's safety.
Wonder who is committing those crimes?
ReplyDeleteLatest information I found was from 2019: "In the year ended June 2019, Maori offenders accounted for 45.8 percent of the offenders of assault crime in New Zealand." But they only make up 17.3% of the population.
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