Problems With Western Australia’s New Gun Restrictions
Commentary
The government of Western Australia is promising a complete overhaul of firearms legislation, with some new restrictions having already passed in May.
Regardless of what is drafted, any new laws will end up passing through Parliament because the Labor government maintains control of both lower and upper houses, allowing it to introduce virtually any legislation unimpeded.
Of course, on the ideological front, a disarmed population is defenceless in the face of an external military threat, and more contemporaneously, impending tyranny.
It is sometimes hard to conceive why a democratic country (a right to self-defence) would go to the extent of disarming the populace—much like the former Soviet Union, which had a gun ban for over 70 years….