We all know how well gun control works. While some people will manipulate facts or outright lie to suggest otherwise, it does nothing to make anyone safer.
And Australia is a case that gets brought up quite a bit.
After the Port Arthur massacre, Australia cracked down on guns, which is why they seem to have an amnesty period every couple of years. Clearly, all those people who aren't supposed to have guns don't have them, but just in case...
Yeah, right.
Now, we've got a guy in the Land Down Under who didn't make it in the old song, but has definitely made an impression on local law enforcement.
A Perth South resident is facing a careless use of firearms charge after Stratford police officers seized more than 160 firearms and other gun paraphernalia from his property last week.
On Aug. 13, police executed a search warrant regarding the unsafe storage of firearms at the home and throughout the Perth South property.
The ensuing search resulted in approximately 165 firearms being located and seized. Approximately 65 of these were handguns that were within the restricted or prohibited class of firearms.
“A very large amount of ammunition, gun powder, and various gun parts were also seized as part of the search warrant,” police said.
As a result of the investigation a 69-year-old man who resides at the residence was arrested. He was charged with the offence of careless use of firearms and later released on an undertaking with a Sept. 19 court date.
Now, it looks like the other 100 firearms were ones that were permitted, and he may well have been authorized to own them, only he didn't have them secured properly. At least, that's my understanding based on this report.
But that still leaves 65 guns that were prohibited or restricted to some degree or another, and he wasn't following the law in some way, shape, or form. Otherwise, why arrest him?
Of course, that assumes this was a good arrest, which is never a guaranteed thing, but let's give the cops the benefit of the doubt here.
If he was arrested for violating gun control laws to any degree, even if it was just not keeping them locked up safe and sound, it's proof that gun control doesn't work as advertised. However, that's based on the charges presented here. I suspect we'll find additional charges later, because some of those guns are restricted, and I find it unlikely he had all of them in accordance with Australian law, and no one thought to ask how he was storing all of this properly.
I mean, this is Europe lite. They're not that interested in personal privacy, so I just don't see how no one asked before now if everything was purchased above board.
And if it wasn't, the magnitude of the total number of guns has got to wake a few people up that maybe, just maybe, all of those gun control laws aren't accomplishing jack squat.
Then we have the fact that this isn't super isolated, either. We see arrests not unlike this one all over the world, all while people tout these nations' gun control policies as the greatest thing ever.
Clearly, I'm not buying it. You're not buying it.
The problem, though, is that too many people will ignore this. They are buying it, and then they're trying to push this crap on us, all while ignoring the failures, including the semi-annual gun amnesties that Australia is starting to make a biannual tradition or something.
It's a lie.
This arrest is kind of proof of that, as are the plethora of others that illustrate just how flawed the whole thing is, even if you accept the underlying premise. And really, who with half a brain would do that?
