Continuing firearm violence means New Zealanders are no safer despite the promises made of legislation passed against licensed firearm owners, according to The Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (COLFO.)
The rushed laws of 2019 have failed to deliver
By Tony Orman
COLFO spokesperson Hugh Devereux-Mack says the recent gun violence is undeniable evidence that New Zealanders have not been made safer by the infamous firearm ban and buyback of 2019-21, or changes to licensing laws.
“New Zealanders were specifically promised that the firearm ban and law changes would make them safer – and yet we see weekly evidence, particularly in Auckland, that the laws have failed to deliver.
“The laws changed nothing because they were directed at fit and proper firearm licence holders, not criminals. Punitive action against people who act responsibly inside the system does nothing to stop criminals willing to act outside it.”
The Government Goofed
“Let’s be clear – this horrible violence is largely being conducted by existing criminals – people already operating outside the legal system. The only thing that will deal with firearm violence is greater intensity of Police work, like Operation Tauwhiro, against the criminal element in society.
“The Government has let us down. The firearm community wanted stricter controls administered via an independent firearms authority which was committed to by government.
While they claim to have a ‘strong track record on firearms crime’[1], the Government has failed to deliver the independent authority and instead set it up as a unit inside the Police which is still subject to the resource constraints noted by the Police Commissioner[2],” Devereux-Mack says.
Firearms Register?
The response to a recent Auckland shooting by Deborah Russell, Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, which reviewed the firearm ban and other firearm licensing changes, had been to refer to restrictions on firearm owners, such as an impending firearm register.
Devereux-Mack pointed out that most of the firearms seized would never have been on a register, and there was no difference in outcome between a shooting with a registered or an unregistered firearm.
If someone was using a firearm – such as in a shooting – Russell said that “they’re going to have to have their firearms licence with them and be able to demonstrate the firearm is their firearm and not someone else’s.[3]”
Comments from Government about a firearms register and other changes to legislation affecting legal firearm owners, should cease until government can prove they will actually make New Zealand safer.
Devereux-Mack added that COLFO opposed general arming of Police because it would make public safety worse.
NOTE: COLFO’s comments on the general arming of Police can be read here.
For further information contact: Hugh Devereux-Mack. 027 362 0853
This letter was sent by a Waikanae resident on 17 December. To date (29 December) there has been no reply. It is worth noting that there are some enlightened councils in the country, including Western Bay of Plenty, New Plymouth and Upper Hutt, who do not discriminate against Pfizer substance unvaccinated people in the use of their public facilities.
Greetings and best wishes for the year ahead, Mayor Gurunathan
As you know I’ve been a great supporter of your mayoralty and appreciative of your good works in the District over the years but I’ve recently become conflicted by the decision of KCDC to ban unvaccinated ratepayers from libraries, swimming pools and buildings where I would otherwise attend meetings, functions as well as partake in recreational activities!
Without delving into the reasoning behind this decision, the questionable efficacy of the vaccines themselves or side-tracking into the reasons behind my own decision to remain vaccine free at this time, I’m aghast about what this decision has meant in real terms.
Simply put I can no longer play table tennis, practice yoga, visit the library, or undergo hot pool rehabilitation for my broken ribs and damaged shoulder!
My question is whether provision has been made for the loss of access to these amenities/facilities and whether this loss will be compensated/reflected in our next Rates bill?
Surely some form of rebate is justified as we (me and my wife) will be otherwise be obliged to financially contribute for things that summarily we have been banned from otherwise partaking in.
Luckily there is still the great outdoors and in Waikanae, as in Otaki, we are blessed with walkways, cycleways, not to mention bush, river and coastal tracks… or is it KCDC’s intention to exclude us from them too?
To conclude, I’m certain that you are philosophically opposed to discriminatory practices, not least due to having faced some in your personal and public life. This leaves me baffled as to your silence now that KCDC itself has seemingly, or by default, opted to take the lead in discriminating against unvaccinated people itself.
Some people may well applaud the discriminatory steps taken under your watch, but in my view it’s a very slippery slope for KCDC to embark on, and it takes courage and real leadership to express the need for moderation in the face of a relentless wave of state sponsored fear and anxiety.
My recently deceased father (who also held you in high regard) would say in his wisdom, in a democracy the end (in this case a 90%+ vaccinated population) noble or not, doesn’t always justify the means (discrimination being applied to a minority).
Going forward, I sincerely trust in New Zealand we won’t see the formation of a segregated society and a parallel economy.
I trust you will honour me with your considered reply, as opposed to a formatted one.
Thanking you in advance
With respect and regards
[Name withheld on request]
Setting aside who can spread covid-19, are people more likely to catch coronavirus choosing books in the library compared with selecting the best bananas in the supermarket? –Eds
My heart aches and my blood boils as, from a distance, I observe what’s happening in my distant homeland of New Zealand.
Long known also by its original Maori name, Ao-tea-roa, which as a child I was told meant Land of the Long White Cloud, it is today shrouded in the darkest of times, as was Middle Earth in the times of Sauron.
The Sauron of J.R.R. Tolkein’s trilogy, as depicted in those magnificent films directed by Peter Jackson and mostly shot in New Zealand, may have been vanquished by a little Hobbit and his friend, but, sadly, Sauron appears to have reincarnated in another form and now holds sway over the whole of the shire — the entirety of the country.
Without digging too deep into that metaphor, but while keeping it in mind, I find myself appalled by the actions and dictates of this one person, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister and now Overlord of a nation of five million Hobbits.
For 30 years up to 1990, I was an honest reporter in New Zealand, taught first the ethics of the craft and its tenets of accuracy, objectivity, balance and truth.
Newspapers (The Taranaki Daily News and the Bay of Plenty Times) radio (Gisborne and Palmerston North) and television (TVNZ/TV One) were all — back then — committed to their role as servants of their respective readers, listeners or viewers.
Our job, at least as I saw it personally, was not just to cover spot news, like fires and accidents and so forth, but to also report accurately and objectively on what politicians were doing, supposedly on our behalf.
Those politicians might be no more than members of a small local council, or right up there at the highest level of government — such as the Holyoakes and Kirks and Moores and Muldoons of the past.
It was our job to report, and to question, and to ask on behalf of the public, those questions that any ordinarily curious person might wish to find answers for.
For those reasons, and although I was often invited to do so, to preserve my independence and neutrality, I never joined a group such as Rotary or any political party.
However, my personal brand of integrity was not shared by everyone in the business. I once questioned an editor at RNZ who had changed my copy to something I could no longer recognize, and he replied “never let the facts spoil a good story.”
Well, here’s a fact that never made it to air.
For a short while I was Economics Correspondent for Television One during the reign of Robert Muldoon.
I came into the office one day to find a thick sheaf of papers on my desk. It contained copies of dozens of bank records pertaining to Muldoon’s acquisition of loans from the IMF and World Bank for his Think Big projects.
But it also revealed that for every such loan he negotiated, he was personally given a — wait for it — non-repayable loan of $1,000,000.
I could never corroborate that circumstantial evidence, and never knew who had slipped those records onto my desk, so the story never went to air.
However, it got me started on what has become about 40 years of research into the machinations of the New World Order crowd.
Muldoon was also rewarded with a period of being governor of the World Bank, and he has been followed by many other NZ Prime Ministers who have secretly been disciples of the New World Order, their task being to slowly, gradually, surreptitiously, steer New Zealand toward the final implementation of the Great Reset.
Jacinda Ardern is one of them.
I don’t make that assertion without hard evidence. That evidence is well presented in one of many videos I have recently made and uploaded to my Bitchute channel, YouTube having canceled my long-standing account because of its frequent exposure of the people and crimes committed by them in their world domination quest.
What it reveals is that she is a graduate, or alumni, of a school for leaders of the future, established years ago by Klaus Schwab: the architect of The Great Reset.
She has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum, and has associated with that great advocate of depopulation, Bill Gates.
Being old enough to recall the introduction of the EFT-POS (electronic transfer — point of sale) system into New Zealand, I have known since then that New Zealand has in many ways been a testing ground for the Globalists.
Like putting a model of a car or plane in a wind tunnel to test its aerodynamics, they use New Zealand for trial runs of their projects, and then make adjustments before going into final production on a global scale.
I am also starting to suspect, based on the evidence, that America’s Dr Mengele (Fauci) and Bill Gates have used past vaccination projects to build toward this current event, conditioning people to believe vaccines are safe, even though there have been associated issues such as autism. That’s a book in itself.
Now here is why my heart aches and my blood boils as Ardern rides roughshod over Kiwiville.
At the recent protest (which I was truly heartened to see) at the Beehive, Mr Tait of the Freedom and Rights Coalition spoke of the “evil and wicked” actions of Ardern’s government.
So true.
I created a video of that as well, for it was truly a powerful event.
But it is not just She who is doing and imposing evil and wicked things.
The entire government is complicit, and that means all parties and the heads of all agencies, for they cannot be unaware of the deadly side-effects of these experimental “shots.”
The bottom line is that where once people such as I, who have thoroughly investigated the New World Order, were often written off as conspiracy theorists, the true and truly evil and wicked conspiracy is that which underlies this global “pandemic” in which so many governments are acting in lockstep to lock down entire nations.
The absolute similarity of approach, of word and deed, speaks to the inescapable conclusion that this has been long in the planning, and now we are seeing its execution (dark pun intended).
The most evil part is that these “vaccines” are working as intended — and if one does some serious and objective research, the shock discovery is that the intention is not to protect, but to use these shots as a real bioweapon — for which all previous vaccines were just a test run — and now, what is being used does precisely what it was designed to do.
They contain parasites and graphene oxide. They maim. And they kill.
It is called depopulation. The very thing that Gates (and Fauci) and the Globalists, and their foot soldiers and mercenaries in governments around the world, including New Zealand, have been working toward for decades.
It is these facts that the NZ mainstream media is hiding from the public, bought off by Sauron herself.
The shire, and above all its children, are indeed in peril.
May the Hobbits awaken.
May knowledge — real truth — take the place of propaganda and induced fear.
My video titled “NZ Protests: PM Ardern Serves Globalist Agenda.”
Death By A Thousand Jabs Video — Aluminum and Fluoride/dementia & Alzheimers.
(A Creative Commons license applies; anyone may link to or share this article, but please include a credit as follows:- Credit – Michael Knight; Bitchute channel https://www.bitchute.com/channel/udxu3i8uj9Un/
A sunset drone pic taken at the north end of the Beach Zone looking north by Tokerau Jim. The Pharazyn Reserve ponds can be seen in the mid-distance centre. Several more impressive photos taken by him in the same area in both directions are on this Facebook page
