Good on ACT.
They know that their gun policy will never be implemented, just as NZF and Greens know some of their extreme policies will never be implemented.
Get the votes and get into a position of power. That’s the political game.
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Whatever ACT does, it does not have blood dripping from its hands unlike NZF who opposed any attempt at gun control until the massacre in Christchurch.
Read and learn:
“In the past, New Zealand First has opposed law changes, with Ron Mark being an avid shooter and gun owner.
Following the 2017 inquiry, the party said the recommendations in the report “target legitimate ownership of legally held firearms by licensed users, importers, and dealers, and recommends further restrictions on them by way of laws and regulations relating to them and their firearms”.
This is a politics thread, not ECON103. People can have opinions and offer as much or as little as they like. Continually demanding that someone else writes a 3 year economic treatise? Time to give it up.
But posters are free to write their own and post it. Nothing wrong with that.
It is not possible for minds to meet when one side is pre-occupied with making excuses for failures rather than confronting the facts.
And the failures to achieve anything of substance by this government after it made huge promises to get elected are nothing short of betrayal & deceit.
Maybe, maybe not. However - their leading sentence in their published policy (and that's probably more than most people read) clearly talks about "the threat of a firearm register". They don't say a "the threat of a full register" or a "the threat of a category A firearms register".
While I still don't understand how any firearms register could be a threat to anybody but to crooks, given that we have this discussion provides already clear proof that ACT is at best obfuscating what they want to do re the firearms register.
Given that this is based on their policies their only priority for the elections (repealing the firearms act and protecting whomever against the "threat" of a firearms register) is it quite disappointing that they didn't even made absolutely clear what they really want to do ... maybe they just want the votes from the trigger happy gun lobby to cheat them afterwards?
Whatever it is - their values seem to have changed and are not anymore consistent with mine ...
Is there any party that keeps anyone perfectly happy? NZ1st, Labour and Greens have all disqualified themselves from my options this election. Still waiting to hear more from Nats, so they remain a possibility, but by process of elimination it looks like Act will be my choice.
And it is not possible for minds to meet when the other side is pre-occupied with focusing on failures rather than facing the facts.
And the posts with the constant focus on the failures by this government after it made huge promises to get elected are nothing but boring and repetitive, and a process of dumbing us down. How about some stimulating discussion?