Thread: Response to the Law and Order Select committee

Originally Posted by JWB

This exercise is called bait and switch. Those of you who have thanked the minister have scored an own goal. Licence holders have gained no respite from persecution. More controls are about to be inflicted upon us. Past police policy and bullying is about to be legitimized.

Etc, etc.

I believe we should acknowledge steps in the right direction as much as we oppose steps in the wrong direction. Surely you agree that the action of the Police Minister in this instance could have worked out a lot worse for the shooting public? Of course it doesn't mean that everyone should relax thinking that commonsense has prevailed. But if the only response to a decision which actually worked reasonably in our favor is more complaints, then from a politicians viewpoint we become the group that "They're never going to be happy regardless of what we do, so why should we cost ourselves votes from the other end of the political spectrum trying? Screw them."

I for one am going to email Paula Bennett my thanks and support, along with the hope that the rights of law-abiding firearms owners will be upheld going forward.