If you’ve noticed one of many recurring themes in Melbourne’s violent crime wave, it’s pretty clear – unarmed business owners being taken advantage of by armed criminals. We also said last year that it would be inevitable that some of the public would take matters into their own hands.
Just yesterday, another jewellery store being knocked off in Melbourne:
A brave witness stole his hammer and threw it at him? Kudos for having a go but the real question is, why was he legally enforced to be unarmed against the assailant in the first place? As usual, being an unarmed victim is twisted into a desirable condition by the Australian press.
This guy also took the initiative:
Kudos to this bloke for also having a go and fighting back and achieving a good outcome. However, he was very lucky that the first swing didn’t connect otherwise he would have been toast.
Furthermore, putting himself in greater danger of being injured or worse by going hands on could have been avoided with so much as a pepper spray or indeed, the presentation of a licenced firearm.
And then there’s this:
Although one of the weakest armed robberies on record considering they were armed and had numbers vs the shop keeper and his mop, it’s a very fortunate state of affairs that they weren’t more determined otherwise it was game over for the shop keeper.
These are just a few of many regular examples, but the point is clear: what kind of backwards country forces it’s citizens to improvise against criminals who have come prepared for an assault?
Australia, that’s who. For all the virtue signalling and lecturing towards Americans about guns, a country that does not even respect the most basic right for of self-defence for it’s citizens to protect themselves and their livelihoods, can hardly claim the moral high ground in this regard.
The arguments for “just get armed security” are tenuous. Sure, if you can afford such an expense then you should have that option but why should you be forced into this choice? Many are priced out of this option because of the already sky-high cost of running a business in Australia. Why can’t a business owner or employee who has been vetted be able to carry a firearm to protect the business and their lives with if they can meet a certain standard?
We saw the epitome of this lunacy during the O’Reilly’s gun store robbery – in essence, a business that sold legal guns was unable to use it’s legal firearms to protect it’s legal firearms from becoming illegal firearms, so it was forced to wait for the government to use it’s firearms until it was too late.
That’s how absurd things have become in this country.
There did exist a time before 1996 where in certain businesses, e.g. service stations and banks, it was not uncommon to have a .38 or a shotgun sitting behind the counter with a staff member. There are no arguments other than “because bureaucrats said so” that this cannot be the case again.
One thing is also clear from these videos: when criminals meet armed resistance, they nearly always turn tail and run.
Criminals are risk/reward operators and the fact there is very little risk for them currently, coupled with a weak as water judicial system and Police that arrive way too late, make Australia a criminal’s paradise.
We all remember this recent example:
A few results like the above, might make criminals think less about reward and more about risk.
yes there is a simple solution although it is many faceted. re-arm australians again allowing self defence with stand your ground and if a judge goes to give a criminal who is convicted by jury a slap on the wrist who has committed an actual crime such as rape, murder, theft etc then the judge is to recieve the full sentence that the perpetrator should have received and have that perpetrator as his cell mate. i would also make it so cops cant in any way get away with criminal actions either even if it is in trying to catch an actual criminal and also serve a full maximum sentence. then we also get to parole officers who let criminals out early on “good behaviour”. if that criminal commits another crime while still on parole then the parole officer also gets to spend the time in the joint. put all this in place and you would rapidly start seeing an exit of the corrupt cops, judges, lawyers etc and the good cops, judges lawyers etc would have a huge raise in morale. the way it is now most of the ones that join for the right reasons are leaving in droves as they cant stand the corrupt culture. also the IQ level for cops needs to be raised back to where it used to be.
Yes i agree
I was robbed at gun point but
During the robery i had brief time i could bave dispatched the 2 crims and that would have stopped 23 pistold being on the street
No I don’t want more guns in the community. The fewer guns there are the harder it gets for criminals to get guns. If staff protection at service station is such an issue, then maybe the registers need to be behind bullet proof screens like you used to see in banks. Funny how banks seem to be getting rid of them these days.
first how does it make it harder for criminals to get guns? the fact is a rudimentary gun is easy to make with basic hand tools and what you can get from the hardware store. add to that that someone with machining skills can turn out one as good as anything you can buy. then add to that our very porous boarders where at best one in 20 shipping containers is checked and then usually on a tip off at worst one in one hundred and that is where most of the guns are coming in for the criminals. as for banks not getting hit as much as they used to. crims know they are not a soft target with or without the screens. many banks also have armed security on premises and the cops will drop other crimes in progress over a bank job. most criminals would rather a soft target such as you getting money out of the atm. yes less gain in the short term but a lot less risk as well. i will also add to this crime with firearms since 96 has gone up around 40 percent. yes deaths have dropped but about 70% of our firearm deaths pre 96 were suicides. suicides with firearms are almost non existent now however, despite “better” mental heal programs suicides have risen it is just the methodology that has changed. these are successful suicides BTW. even with the sudden drop of suicides by firearms there has not been a similar corresponding drop in firearm deaths but instead the firearm deaths have continued the exact same gradual downward trend it has been on since the 60’s with none of it due to any firearm laws.
will also add that us crime in the 80’s was very high. since the sunset clause of the Assault Weapons Ban that they had for a few years the number of firearms owned in the US has risen dramatically yet the crime rate overall has gone way down. this is even with all the crazies you hear about on the news. i would also posit that if they were not getting their dose of infamy from the news media and they were shown the door out of this world very promptly with little fanfare there would likely be a whole lot less of them.