As expected, PM Jacinda initiated her semi-automatic firearms ban, but the statistics below contained in an OIA response last December and reproduced on the Police website show why until last Friday there wasn’t an issue.
The next terrorist (and Islamic State have called for an attack in retaliation) will need to obtain an assault rifle illegally, use bombs (the most popular choice for Muslim terrorists overseas) on drones or in a truck, or just use a big truck to mow people down as has happened in overseas cities like Nice, Berlin, Stockholm, Barcelona, London…
Hmm. Is Jacinda going to fix the real reason last Friday happened — big time security intelligence failure?
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Only 15 firearm licence holder have committed murder in the last 20 years according the NZ Police records. So do we think Jacinda’s new Gun laws is going to fix that?
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Why don’t you IOA the number of weapons stolen in NZ each year from licensed gun holders before you make a claim along the lines of ‘because licensed firearms owners don’t pull the trigger they play no part in firearm related violence’. A lot easier to steal a legally purchased gun than it is to import an illegal one.
Selective data breeds selective opinions.
How about, vaccination rates haven’t changed, and there was no measles outbreak over the last five years, so it doesn’t matter whether people get vaccinations or not – as long as we don’t include 2019…
By the by, number of people convicted is nice but it would tell a different story if you said number of people killed by firearms – not everyone gets caught, not everyone who is caught is convicted, and not everyone who is convicted is guilty of a single offence. As evidenced by the fact 2019 will probably be 1 or 2 as well.
Lisa… I would like to buy your rock.
We are happy to submit an OIA request on your behalf asking “how many firearms were reported stolen from licensed firearms owners in each of the last 10 years” and “how many non-licenced firearms holders were convicted of murder using a firearm over the same period?”
Don’t expect the numbers to be high, though. This article has a table giving the totals of persons murdered in each of the years 2000-2017 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107415102/murder-rate-hits-a-40yearlow-police-say