Thread: What do you think and where do I stand?

Originally Posted by ebf

So I guess you'd be ok with an unknown person discharging firearms at or near your house, maybe when your kids are running around the garden... ?

Rather safe than sorry mate, could just as well have been Aramoana v2, all it takes is one nut job with a gun...

Media style fear-mongering doesn't help anyone though does it? After a while 'rather safe than sorry' can become more of a 'boy who cried wolf' situation, the police might not bother turning up if the fireworks false alarm person calls them again.

Police responses seem to vary a lot between areas too, I remember there was a case a couple of years ago in Waihola where a bloke called the police to tell them someone was taking pot shots at his fence/garage/house (newspaper had photos of the bullet holes) and they didn't even send a car out from Dunedin because it was saturday night and they were too busy scraping up drunk students and giving tickets to boyracers.

Somewhere in between wild over-reaction and uninterested non-response is a sensible medium ground, where we hope they are most of time.