https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editor...rsation-needed
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The fuckwit that wrote that must be Australian. Reads like the shit they spout over here.
What a load of horseshit
Where's the idiot's fuckin proof?
Besides, what were the cops expected to do when confronted with a sawn-off - I reckon the AOS got that one spot-on.
If you front the cops with a gun then they have every right to take your dumb arse out
As for Cahill, that is just bollocks
55 guns stolen each and every day... :ORLY:
Wow the black market in ammo must be huge!
Fake news.
Don't panic guys. The 20k number is pure cods wallop.
Does someone with too much spare time want to submit an official information request for the police figures on stolen firearms, and then lay a complaint about a police officer lying on public record if they don't agree with his claim?
If you read it it says "or sold to offenders". So the 20k is not clearly the total stolen. Good bit of vague reporting to amp up the anti gunners.
Sent to the odt:
To whom it may concern,
the linked article is an absolutely appalling standard of journalism, using emotive statements and exaggeration in order to increase reader numbers. In a modern sense, it is click bait, and a sad display of the standard of NZ journalism.
You talk about those that get caught in the cross fire. Do you have any evidence of this, or are you referring to innocent bystanders that get shot by AOS members when they miss their targets (Auckland North western motorway incident)?
What about the conflicting information that is also presented by the media such as:
9 Jan 2017 Radio NZ New Zealand | Radio New Zealand News ... union-says
"The problem stemmed from more than 20,000 firearms, including military semi-automatic weapons, entering the country each year, which were then stolen or sold to offenders, he said"
10 Jan 2017 Radio NZ New Zealand | Radio New Zealand News ... legal-guns
"Mr Cahill said it was estimated nearly 50,000 guns come into New Zealand to be sold each year"
So which is it RNZ?...neither i suspect, just the usual sloppy propaganda dished up for the masses..
I thought journalism was meant to be truthful, complete and accurate. NZ firearms owners have noted that your ‘publication’ routinely creates articles with an negative slant towards firearms in this country, without displaying all the relevant facts.
I also note that there is ZERO evidence to back up anything in this article, just an attempt to create hysteria. It is pretty easy to realise that the numbers stated are fabrication (5 minutes on google and some common sense will show this).
As a result I and a number of other liecensed firearms owners will be laying complaints to the press council.
Poor form.
Very likely but the average Joe public doesn't know that they want to believe this BS, This new Wanker is far worse than the old wanker
his lies are not believable and he doesn't seem to give a shit, We could be in big trouble very soon with this enquiry into illegal firearms
the Police don't mined lying to get the result they want it seems,
If 300,000 firearms owners withdraw their support from National and Labour it should send a message just don't give it to the Greens and United
Nah there's a balls up there some where.??
Australia
More than 6000 firearms stolen across Australia in two-year period, figures show
America
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...firearm-survey
That's just very poor journalism full stop if the 20000 figure was true, the journo would print the source of said information.
I do like this in the third paragraph from bottom though.
"It is a difficult balance, given responsible gun owners will inevitably be tarred with any reactionary brush, "
But that's about it:(
C'mon now he might be including nail guns rivet guns spray guns glue guns and so on and such might boost the figures a bit .......can't let the facts get in the way of a good story
that ODT piece is an editorial — essentially a puffed-up in-house column/opinion piece — so one shouldn't expect facts, balance or journalism.
So in the last five years 100,000 firearms were stolen or sold to criminals? How many criminals are there in a country with only 4 million people?
More media releases by the POlice to bolster their coming attempt to convince politicians and the public of the need for a strict firearms law change once the inquiry results are published.
If they have to make up figures it just shows how weak the need for it is.
@Rushy, you owned a grease gun! B or E cat! Hope it was unloaded, where do you store the grease? I bet you only owned it for the nipple!
Was it a Blouse!:thumbsup:
This just in.... ODT reports a man assaulted with stolen grease gun .... police haven't heard a squeak out of him
"Has gun ownership evolved into a right, rather than a privilege?"
Considering the definition of privilege means special right I'd say your repeating yourself you git.
Again, this is all just part of a propaganda war.
I think the comment by Dick O'Connor must be wrong as well, "police losing the arms race" shit if 20 k are going a year the horse has well and truly bolted! I'm bugger if I know why we keep them secured, it's obviously not working and is just a small inconvenience to the crim.
How do thes wankers hold their jobs??:O_O:
I'll go with the Phillipines man, 1M on his hit list and working thru them! What a guy!!!:O_O:
I see only one person has bothered to put a comment on the ODT website instead of simply whining about it here.
I am with you Maca. There is quite a lot about Duterte's approach that has appeal. No nonsense, says what he thinks. Of course you and I will have to accept that we would be in the minority in our thinking. Too many overly politically corrected socialist in our society today that think you and I are obsolete in our thinking.
I smell the doyen of left leaning MSM reporters experts one Prof Kevin clements pudgy wee digits behind this crock of crap.
PKC is head of institute of peace studies or something similar at otago university.a great academic institution that -has had 3convicted killers on its tutorial staff in last 10-15yrs.,but shit no ODT would never publicise that
this bloke Cahill-does anyone find him odd -everytime i see him spouting forth about police matters ,i get the impression hes missing a diode in one of his circuits.
i watched him recently being interviewed and he came across as being on the point of tears.buggered if i know what it is but i just cant connect.at least with moosejaw oconnor you knew youd get a diatribe of good old socialist vernacular.
Absolutely, and its a disgrace that we have been scrutinized over the media because of it. Why can't they provide actual sound facts or provide a story that has reason & balance. They can't
Instead we have people like that "journalist" who would rather fire off miss-informed, un-factual blanks pun intended
It's pretty simple, Cahill is a fucking liar. And if he can lie this blatantly to promote this part of his agenda (whatever that may be) you can assume he lies quite readily. Liar + policeman = very dangerous indeed. It's this type of arsehole that gives decent cops a bad name and put innocent people in jail. He's a disgrace and needs to foxtrot oscar sharpish