You can’t give an inch to gun control activists. As soon as you do, they want more and more. Just look at New Zealand.
After the mass shooting in Christchurch, the far-left Prime Minister led a war on guns in his country. It’s enough to make you wonder if the shooter was a political operative — especially considering his manifesto openly claimed that he was doing it to try and get gun rights restricted.
That aside, New Zealand largely supported the massive shifts in gun legislation. The banned huge swaths of gun sales, and they backed that with a large-scale, mandatory gun buyback program. In fact, the first leg of that program concluded in July.
That means the country is now successfully instituting a full-scale gun confiscation, and most of that effort is leveled at semi-automatic weapons. They made it clear that their primary goal is to remove those firearms from all private citizens in the country.
The worst part of all of this is that it will be pretty much impossible to prove what statistical impacts these programs actually have. Gun crime was already exceedingly rare in New Zealand, and mass shootings were truly unheard of. When New Zealand goes another 10 years without a mass shooting, leftists will incorrectly credit the gun control. Really, that’s just the going rate in New Zealand (which isn’t surprising for a country with more sheep than people).
What’s incredibly frustrating and scary is that the New Zealand government isn’t done. Banning sales and confiscating weapons isn’t enough. Now, the Prime Minister is proposing a gun registry. So, any of the firearms that remain after bans and buybacks will have to be licensed and registered to owners.
There’s a lot to cover in just this one proposal. We’ll get to more of it in a minute, but the single most important thing to understand is that this proposal fundamentally changes gun rights in New Zealand. As soon as you need a license and registration to own a firearm, it is no longer a right. It’s a privilege that can be revoked at the whims of the government.
If you aren’t convinced, think about driving. You don’t have the right to drive. You don’t have the right to a driver’s license. If you think it’s worth the time and money, you can pay fees and jump through hoops to be allowed to drive, but the government has total control over revoking your license for any reason they concoct. This is what New Zealand wants for firearms.
Dangers of a Gun Registry
If losing a fundamental right isn’t scary enough, consider the more direct dangers of a gun registry. It is a cornerstone of gun control. As soon as all gun owners are on a government list, the war for gun rights is over.
Think about it this way. In the U.S., liberals were not shy about using the IRS to target openly conservative businesses. They got away with doing this. Do you really think any of these would-be tyrants would hesitate to use a gun registry to identify political opposition? How long do you think it would take before a gun registry was abused by the left?
A lot of pushback against gun control funnels to this point. You can’t have universal background checks without a registry. How else are you supposed to track private sales? The honor system? It’s similar for anything that requires licensing. If you have to issue a license, then you have to maintain a registry.
Most “common sense” gun control ultimately leads to a registry, and that’s what the left is after. As soon as they have a list of all gun owners, they’ll use it to attack. At this point, they’ve done enough to convince us they have no scruples.
It might already be too late for New Zealand. Keep a close eye on how things go. Especially pay attention to how quickly liberals try to credit gun control for a drop in gun deaths and mass shootings. Everything going wrong in New Zealand can go wrong here, and it will take tireless effort to maintain our freedom. Don’t forget that.
Should anyone wonder how the New Zealand government can pass such draconian anti-firearms legislation, the answer is simple: They don’t have a Second Amendment or even the codified right to use a firearm in self-defense. The current firearms restrictions have been challenged in New Zealand’ highest court and adjudged legal and proper under New Zealand law. That is why we must jealously guard ALL provisions of our Second Amendment against any and all legislation which would infringe upon it. We have allowed the provisions of the Second Amended to be chipped away incrementally, one prohibition at a time, until the right to keep and bear arms in some jurisdictions resembles the strictures of those in New Zealand, i.e., you must get permission from the police to own or purchase a firearm. We neither need nor want that sort of thing in the United states of America. .
Hitler would be proud. One of his first statements was, “To conquer a nation first disarm it’s citizens”. All socialist, communist, and all others known as liberals/fools, are trying as rapidly as possible, to follow his advice.
I’m looking forward to some DEMIRAT showing up to my door to relieve me of any weapon I may possess. Maybe they will try it one street at a time, that would be a very interesting scenario.
History teaches that only those willing and prepared to kill and die for their rights will retain them.
They will try here, the sociopathic left. The difference here will be finding volunteers to go house to house, to get killed. What do they think will happen if people see their neighbors house surrounded by the STASI, wars will be fought throughout entire neighborhoods. This is inevitable, because the only people willing to do this, don’t believe in the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, and will therefore be considered the enemy of the people. The Sociopaths have no idea what they would be in for. They don’t understand the ideology of giving ones life for what they believe in, which is why they will lose.