What do you think of New Zealand banning assault rifles?

@ShadowOfMyself but they can kill many in fast succession

So can explosives and those can easily be home made! @SW-User

@ShadowOfMyself but easier to figure out if someone is planning as the ingredients for them are key give aways. but if you can just buy an assault rifle and stock up on ammo over time you're set without anyone really noticing before its too late

Here’s another way to put it: KNO3 (potassium nitrate) is a fairly common and easy to obtain compound. You can mix it with sugar (I’m omitting other details by the way but it’s not hard to figure out and that’s kind of my point) and make a mixture that smokes very impressively when ignited. What’s stopping someone from walking into an establishment, barricading everyone in, and letting a few of those loose? The same thing that’s not stopping people from shooting. Or stabbing. Or clubbing. It will happen as long as human exist on this planet. @SW-User

And it can be done within an hour by the way. @ShadowOfMyself

@ShadowOfMyself I know we can never stop violence but taking the steps to prevent the ease in which people can kill should be good right?

IF Thats the case what are you going to do when people are hacking others up with machetes (like in the uk) then? Ban machetes? Ok. What about when they start bashing heads in with rocks? You wanna ban the rocks too?@SW-User

@ShadowOfMyself Oh, because we have about fifty machete attacks a day here! lol

It still happens though doesn’t it? You get buses blown up too don’t you? People will kill and hurt. Because that’s what people do@Quizzical

@ShadowOfMyself both of those you have to be closer to the person but I get your point just don't agree with that as a reason for not banning rifles that can and have made it far more easier to kill as for uk argument that's more down to government cuts to policing forcing them to be almost ineffective

@ShadowOfMyself very occasionally, and yes, sometimes things get blown up.

But the idea is to make it a lot harder to allow those things to happen.

The way you are talking we may as well live in complete anarchy without any rules or laws at all 🙄

I just don’t see any good it will do. As far as I see it, taking guns away makes it harder for people to defend themselves, especially against another person with a gun. Just because guns are illegal doesn’t mean they can’t be obtained. They can be made. And they are. They are called “Ghost guns” because they are untraceable. Fake brand, fake serial number, fake everything because it was made in someone’s shed. It’s a real thing. Just one thing. It’s easy to look up the numbers of how many people may have been potentially saved by a civilian with a gun. I never hear of anyone doing it@SW-User