Episode 253 – The Needs of the Many…

Apr 16, 2019 | | Say something

Streamed live on 24 Mar 2019

In New Zealand, 72 HOURS after a murder spree with a gun that killed fifty people, gun reform is making it’s way through the government, banning military-style semi-automatic, assault rifles, and high-capacity magazines. With an estimated 1.2 Million guns in the country (1 per three people), the buy-back program for these weapons will be between $100 and $200 Million.

BUT! Even before this goes through to becoming a law, some citizen have ALREADY turned in weapons to be scrapped, to get them out of the general population. And why?

In the words of John Hart, who owns a sheep and beef farm and ran as Green Party candidate in the country’s 2017 elections, “For me, it became that trade-off: is my convenience worth the risk to other people’s lives by having these guns in the country? I pretty quickly realized there was no comparison. We’ll cope without semi-automatic weapons, we won’t cope without the people who were taken from us from these events.”

#5MFS ‘BAKKA’

(Show Notes)
The Hill – New Zealanders turning over firearms after mass shooting
http://tinyurl.com/y3dsuqwd

ABC News – Here’s why the federal government can’t study gun violence
https://tinyurl.com/y57gnhwd

Jama Network – Silencing the Science on Gun Research
https://tinyurl.com/yy39gnzb

IMDB – Red Dawn
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985

Johnny Dangerously – It’s an 88 Magnum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-0F…

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