I think to myself, what a wonderful world (hearing Louis Armstrong and seeing happy, innocent children skipping through fields of daisies), because:
Police in Victoria, Australia are planning a crackdown on gun owners. They are set to check whether 18,000 of the state's registered firearms owners "have stored their firearms properly."
The crackdown comes as gun-related murders and gun theft have declined dramatically since the gun-law reforms after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
"Guns now rank behind knives and physical assault as the most common method of murder in Australia."
All this on top of proposed spikes in firearms registration fees in Victoria.
Soooo, wait a minute. Not all is quite so rosy. The kids in the daisy fields just disappeared. Um, the Aussies still have murder? So gun registration and draconian storage laws didn't do anything to the stem "violence," right? Is anyone doing anything about the assault knives? Visiting homes to see that the steak knives are stored properly?
For the love of God . . . for the children?
Note: For the truly paranoid, is this door-to-door stuff the result of registration schemes? The, "oh trust us, we don't want to take your guns . . . we just want to know who owns the guns!"
Your thoughts?
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