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New Zealand Confiscates Guns [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 27 October 2024 | John Semmens
Posted on 10/31/2024 10:36:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
In New Zealand there is no constitutional right for citizens to bear arms. Recently, the police conducted a domestic intelligence operation to identify people who hold unacceptable political opinions. They identified 62 such individuals who were licensed to own firearms and confiscated their weapons.
Under the island's laws, the Firearms Safety Authority says "an applicant for a firearms license must be a fit and proper person to possess and use firearms." Government officials take the position that espousing views the government regards as "extreme" is sufficient grounds for disarming them. Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asserted that "it would be irresponsible to wait until after guns were improperly used to seize them. I've always believed that an ounce of prevent is worth a pound of cure."
Democrat nominee for vice-president Gov. Tim Walz admitted that "the New Zealand approach of trying to stop trouble before it starts seems sensible, but we need a way to finesse our way around the Second Amendment's protection of the right of sports shooters like myself to own firearms to make such an idea work here. President Biden has already used the FBI to suppress dangerous ideas from being spread on social media. Maybe if we can get the American Psychiatric Association to declare MAGA people to be mentally ill we could confiscate their weapons on the grounds that dangerously deranged folks shouldn't be allowed to have guns."
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TOPICS: Government; History; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: fbi; guns; satire; tyranny
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1 posted on 10/31/2024 10:36:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
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