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Machetes banned?
04 August 2025, 20:00
Bull SprigMachetes banned?
I'm speechless.
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04 August 2025, 21:43
Michael RobinsonI’m sure everyone in Australia will now feel so much safer from those nasty criminals.
Now, if only they can ban cricket bats and nail clippers, too.
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
04 August 2025, 23:21
Bull SprigUnless I'm mistaken it appears NZ has come to its senses? Read an article that described that prior commie woman's term as "the nadir of the idea that intentions are more important than outcomes."
The same insanity perfectly describes the left in the USA. I hope the whole world catches on and scuttles the insane progressive horseshit.
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05 August 2025, 03:32
<shankspony>Yes. But....
The new govt has been left with some very tough decisions. Ones that will make them unpopular. Austerity etc.
The old govt sans Jacinda are still making up the opposition, and they are not coming up with any new ideas or signalling they have modified their views. In fact they are doing and saying nothing. Just waiting for the hard times they created to hit and make the govt thats trying to fix things unpopular.
I fear we will see the insanity again to some level.
05 August 2025, 04:24
yumastepsideTypical gumbyment response...reacting to the tool ie. knife, gun, whatever instead of the problem...in this case, the little shits that get away with everything because the courts won't touch them...
Roger
05 August 2025, 05:25
<shankspony>Be interesting to see some Aussies comment. I suspect it's probably another symptom, like other places, of immigration without support that integrates newcomers into the community. And like elsewhere the problem becomes the tool, rather than the much harder to fix, societal issue.
05 August 2025, 06:15
SaeedJust saw in the news they have a 21 year old SENATOR!
And some of their women senators are as bad as their American counterparts.
BIMBOS!
Nothing else!

05 August 2025, 12:50
Bakesquote:
Originally posted by shankspony:
Be interesting to see some Aussies comment. I suspect it's probably another symptom, like other places, of immigration without support that integrates newcomers into the community. And like elsewhere the problem becomes the tool, rather than the much harder to fix, societal issue.
Hit the nail on the head mate. Most Aussies are scratching their heads over this one.
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05 August 2025, 23:33
<shankspony>Do the politicians know what they will do when the machete crime moves too knives or clubs?
06 August 2025, 01:50
gryphon1Here is another case.There are many.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...tim-speaks/105615644
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06 August 2025, 04:50
Michael Robinsonquote:
Originally posted by gryphon1:
Here is another case.There are many.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...tim-speaks/105615644
That’s what happens when citizens are willfully denied the right and ability to defend themselves against criminal attack.
Shameful and ridiculous, both.
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
06 August 2025, 05:07
gryphon1quote:
Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
quote:
Originally posted by gryphon1:
Here is another case.There are many.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...tim-speaks/105615644
That’s what happens when citizens are willfully denied the right and ability to defend themselves against criminal attack.
Shameful and ridiculous, both.
Pull that shit on a good old boy in New Mexico (open carry) and see how much longer ya gonna live.
Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
06 August 2025, 05:20
Michael RobinsonYup. 100%
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
06 August 2025, 08:32
sambarman338I support the ban, at least without some sort of licence that could be issued to people with reasonable purpose.
Sometimes the criminal zeitgeist focuses on certain weapons, such as the 'assault rifles' that tend to be the default choice in shoot'em-up computer games.
John Howard (a polly I dislike) just happened to take out most of them with his unfair 1996 laws. However, we've not had a single 'mass murder' of the Port Arthur/common-American type since that time. Sgt York had proved one does not need any kind of self-loader to kill lots of people, but fortunately the crazies have not focused on the long-throw M17 so far

Somehow, machetes had, however, gained some mystique in the gang world - and we know that mentally deficient copycats can't help themselves (it seems murders actually rose at the publicity surrounding capital punishment, when we used to hang people).
06 August 2025, 14:20
the PomAs the French man said while witnessing a British hanging "Pour encourages les autres" (scuse my French)
07 August 2025, 05:37
sambarman338Mais oui!
07 August 2025, 20:27
Bull SprigWhere are most of the machete wielding immigrants from? It would appear they're as grateful for the gift of being allowed into another country as the ones in Europe and the US (not all but many).
I happen to believe that men of all ilk were never meant to live together.....and we all see the direction the world is headed because of it.
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07 August 2025, 20:34
gryphon1quote:
Where are most of the machete wielding immigrants from?
From offshore or offshore heritage.
Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
09 August 2025, 01:14
Bakesquote:
Originally posted by Bull Sprig:
Where are most of the machete wielding immigrants from? It would appear they're as grateful for the gift of being allowed into another country as the ones in Europe and the US (not all but many).
I happen to believe that men of all ilk were never meant to live together.....and we all see the direction the world is headed because of it.
Mostly African gangs mate.
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10 August 2025, 16:58
Bill/OregonGangs, again.

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