OMG ... the lunatics really ARE running the asylum!

[Bruce in West Oz]

This is New South Wales, in Australia, from The Daily Telegraph today.

Coloured guns to halt evil market

By MATT SUN

February 11, 2005

GUNS carried by security guards could be coloured orange in a bid to stop them being stolen by criminals.

Making the guns brightly coloured would make them harder to conceal and less attractive to criminals, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said yesterday.

It is just one of the measures being considered in the war against illegal firearms.

The idea follows the theft of two pistols and thousands of dollars from security guards as they emptied an ATM at Randwick on Tuesday night.

But Mr Moroney said there has been a crackdown on firearm security since 31 Glock pistols were stolen from Obliging Security on August 30, 2003.

"In 2004 the NSW police commenced a compliance audit of some 185,000 licenced firearm holders in possession of some 600,000 registered firearms," Mr Moroney said yesterday. "Some 43,000 weapons were seized and destroyed."

Premier Bob Carr yesterday said there are too many guns on the streets.

"If there is one person with malevolent intentions and one gun in his possession that's one too many," Mr Carr said.

Mr Carr said his Government and the police were working hard to reduce the number of guns on the streets.

But Opposition Leader John Brogden claimed Mr Carr was cutting back police numbers by 500 officers at a time when "we obviously need more police on the streets".

"The harsh reality is robberies with a firearm occur on average twice a day," he said.

He asked why it had taken police a month to release surveillance footage of a train commuter being robbed and also questioned the value of CCTV cameras as a crime deterrent.

Mr Maroney agreed "visibility of police at the right hour of the day on the right day of the week" was crucial to preventing crime.

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=2644345

Does the word "paint" have any meaning for this useful idiot?

Incidentally, the 43 000 weapons "seized" is a deliberate deception. These were legally held firearms that the police forced people to give up under the second compulsory "buyback" across Australia (handguns this time), which banned handguns over .38 cal, made 10-shot mags the limit, and made barrel length under 120 mm (4.7244094") illegal. The guns that didn't comply were taken, crushed, and the owners paid what the government considered a "fair price".

 

[io333]

I'm pretty sure they don't have paint in Australia so it will probably work.

 

[Brian Dale]

...31 Glock pistols were stolen from Obliging Security...

Must...resist..wisecrack...

Bruce, if you ever decide that the fight can't be won there, you'll be very welcome here.

 

[carebear]

31 Glock pistols were stolen from Obliging Security

A little too obliging I guess.

Our security companies are named things like "Guardian" and "Securitas" and "Guardsmark".

 

[fallingblock]

I know, Bruce.....

The BS is always flying fast and loose in our media, but that piece about the 43,000 'seized' weapons was a stretch, even for the likes of the "SMH".

You have to wonder....

Are folks like Bob Carr trying to convince themselves, or desperately attempting to justify policy which clearly is not delivering what they promised.

Are there ANY respectable politicians in power anywhere here in Oz?

 

[Nazirite]

Being originally from Tennessee orange might not be that bad.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Of course, in the States, an orange gun means, "Don't shoot me, I'm holding a toy."

Sadly, the gun bigots in OZ are infected with the same disease their American counterparts suffer from.

Rather than acknowledge their own disastrously failed premise, they get sucked into spirals of "it didn't work, so we have to try the same thing harder"

 

[RaggedClaws]

This will work of course because criminals would never paint a stolen gun black if they're already painted orange, right

 

[Third_Rail]

Ragged, that has an easy fix. Just make re-painting them illegal!

 

[P95Carry]

Premier Bob Carr yesterday said there are too many guns on the streets.

Again and again and again .... this weary statement gets brought out ... it has to be the most worn-out of all the anti's verbal armory.

Why is it never qualified by separating the good guys from bad. These ''guns on the streets'' are Bad Guy's guns ... but over and over, this lame excuse is used to inflict control over all gun owners, law abiding or not. It is indeed - has to be - all but proven that this is control - pure unmitigated control.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Of course, in the States, an orange gun means, "Don't shoot me, I'm holding a toy."

I thought that was a blue gun.

Or a black gun with an orange tip on the muzzle.

 

[ctdonath]

Something that looks like a gun and is brightly colored usually means - in the USA, particularly in NY by law - that it is a toy or otherwise not real. It's hard to find toy guns in NY that are not brilliant & exotic colors.

Of course, now some polypragmaton wants to require real guns be brilliantly colored. Brilliant.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Why is it never qualified by separating the good guys from bad

Leftist extremists have no interest in good versus bad people, only armed people versus disarmed socialist serfs.

 

[Brian Dale]

P95Carry, you miss the point. Catching bad guys is dangerous. It's much better to oppress good people; look at all of the careers that have been built on that principle!

 

[P95Carry]

Catching bad guys is dangerous. It's much better to oppress good people; look at all of the careers that have been built on that principle!

Sadly Bob (cynical hat on) this does rather too often seem the case!