In the wash up of all the Adler insanity of the past two weeks, a new threat has emerged to attempt to ram home unsuccessful changes to the National Firearms Agreement. Authoritarian control freaks never rest.
Dubbed the “Parliamentary Friends of Gun Control” the group was apparently formed by Labor MP Andrew Leigh and Walter Mikac over a dinner conversation. Yes, this is more of the same tired old antics from professional victim Mikac who once claimed “his letter to John Howard” was the catalyst for the National Firearms Agreement, when in fact the laws were already drawn up as early as 1991 and John Howard freely admitted he already had them ready to go.
When Mikac wants to campaign as hard for a royal commission or coronial inquiry into the many unanswered questions about the events of Port Arthur, as he does continuing his 20 year crusade to collectively punish those not responsible for a crime committed with illegally acquired firearms, we might take him seriously.
Essentially, this latest move is just a blatant marketing attempt to rebadge the same snakes and charlatans we all know. Frustrated that their brute force campaign of lies, half truths, shutting gun owners out of consultation and misleading of parliament didn’t work, they now are trying to court the public and shooting community by appearing “reasonable.”
They aren’t the Judean People’s Front, they’re the People’s Front of Judeah.
It’s lines like this that have us incredibly convinced:
“A letter to all MPs and senators sent on Thursday noted that 80 per cent of Australians support strong gun laws and debate should be “informed by evidence and facts”.
The same “facts and evidence” that has been forsaken from the anti-gun side in favour of screaming “Port Arthur” and buzzwords for the past 20 years, is now going to magically appear in the discourse? I’d also hazard a guess most Australians also support the right of self defence but let’s completely gloss over that too?
Who else is behind this latest move?
“Liberal John Alexander, who occupies Mr Howard’s former seat of Bennelong”
And there you have it. Alexander is obviously under instruction from a certain narcissist suffering relevance deprivation syndrome. There comes a price tag with holding on to Herr Howard’s former base of operations.
Ah yes John Alexander, the former Australian Gladiators first season referee and former tennis player. Alexander is the latest in the string of household names that pop up when we instantly think of “authority on firearms.”
His first serve is definitely a foot fault:
“I had a dinner party and one of my American friends said, ‘John, you’ve got to get a gun.’ It turned out that I didn’t know one person there who didn’t own a gun”
On cue, the old false comparison to the US card which we’ve written about ad nauseum. No, living in a geographical location does not make you an expert on all issues in the locale and neither does once having a dinner party in the United States and forming your opinion and expertise solely off of that.
Second serve:
“I understand the need of people in regional areas [of Australia] to have certain types of rifles, but why would you need a gun in urban areas?”
So, only gun owners who live in rural Australia are suited to own firearms? What criteria determines rural? The rest that all reside in “urban” areas and have lives 9-5 are completely excluded from ownership because of an arbitrary geographical exclusion you’ve placed on them? Because, that stops firearms from being procured illegally into the city doesn’t it? That’s locationist! And again, the strawman ‘need’ argument comes into play.
Double fault. 0-15.
Alexander is not off to a great start. Perhaps he should not start at all, stick to tennis and stop wasting his time on an issue he is so far out of his depth on but is obviously being pushed into, purely because of the man who previously occupied his constituency.
“Friends of Gun Control” are No Friends of Law Abiding Firearm Owners. They never have
been. One only needs to look at their track record.
As the saying goes “you can fool me once…”
Another slow news day, so John Alexander (John who?) decides to kick the shooters in the guts. Jonathan O’dea (Jonathan who?) then state member for Davidson did exactly the same thing 10 years ago with the contrived outrage over the Roseville Chase gun shop. I also seem to remember Dawn Frazer (then member for Balmain) and her little stunt with the SKKs all those years ago too (Dawn who?). LAFOs are handy to have around when you have a political career to build, but not much value to otherwise offer the community.. I find these creatures to be beyond contempt, but am comforted by the reality that they will eventually disappear into their shitty little lives from whence they came once the electorate tires of them. BTW – I live in this turkey’s electorate (sorry, what’s his name again?). Same day this was announced, the Alana and Madeline Foundation was out door knocking our neighbourhood for their seedy little endeavour . Please don’t tell me that this was no coincidence.