Posted on 08/15/2013 12:13:18 PM PDT by marktwain
Via jigsaw in #GBC…
Greens launch $350m guns buyback plan:
THE Greens want to spend more than $350 million to ban semi-automatic handguns and buy them back from their owners.
But the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) said that would not affect the guns used by drug gangs for drive-by shootings in western Sydney.Greens leader Christine Milne said gun violence could not be tackled without taking guns off the streets.
“We need strong action to reduce the number of handguns falling into the wrong hands. They have become the firearm of choice for criminals in Australia, especially in the drug trade and in gangs,” she said in a statement.
Under the Greens plan, costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office at $351.5 million, semi-automatic handguns would be banned, with a 12-month amnesty and buyback.
So less than two decades after requiring registration to reduce gun violence (WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?), and that not working to reduce drug-related violence, the answer is to…
Confiscate guns from folks who aren’t violent drug criminals.
And this makes sense.
They can call it a buyback all they want, but unless it’s voluntary (hint: It’s not) it’s confiscation.
And go read this presser from the Greens if you’re having problems with low blood pressure today. That’ll cure it.
Related Article on Gun Watch: Gun Registration is Gun Confiscation
Forced Gun Buyback = confiscation
Dean, I think you and I have always agreed that the buyback term is an affront to anyone with the brainpower of a turnip (I realize I just eliminated of whole bunch of leftists).
Christine Milne needs an expenses paid 2 week vacation in a cheap motel in South Side Chicago without a car and only allowed to go out to eat after dark. That way she can learn first hand about disarming citizens. Of course if medical and/or funeral expenses are incurred the county will pick them up.
...unexpectedly...
They cant understand what US politics are about.
We have 50% of our political process advocating race wars.
We need guns, lots of Gun, big guns.
The only other part of the world in which sectarian violence is a way to power is in the Middle East.
The common thread, ruled by muslims...
Once again, somebody else don’t like what you do, and is trying to make you stop doing it!
** Grand Supposition at work here **
Suppose the ‘Green people’ just, somehow, (could it be alien abduction?), just started coming up missing?
I do agree with getting a bigger bullhorn and talking about gun rights, in a Socialist country that doesn’t know they are.
We Americans .... won’t settle for anything less than universal—all fifty states—carry reciprocity.
Registration?
That’s for ‘subjects’ in Commonwealth countries.
SO.. the Greens are running the show are they?
Australia disarms the decent people....
after all what could go wrong with that?..
The logic of this is dysfunctional.. maybe dyslexic..
“SO.. the Greens are running the show are they?”
No, I do not think they are in charge. I believe that this is just one of their policy proposals.
It’s a stupid proposal. They’d be better off spending that money beefing up their military.
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