Thread: Is buying 69 firearms from GunCity in 18 months signs of an addiction ?

Hmmm I disagree. What if crappier prison conditions resulted in a reduction in crime?

Originally Posted by square1

Hmmm I disagree. What if crappier prison conditions resulted in a reduction in crime?

Does it? If so, awesome, do it


but research it first. And I would lay money that it doesn't.


e:5 seconds google finds an abstract for a paper that claims to have found that deaths in prison (as an indicator of prison conditions) is negatively correlated with the crime rate, so yeah, make prisons shitter if you want more crime

presumably shitty prisons will make the inmates resent society further and feel more alienated from it


but this isn't really a debate to be had here, we're kinda way off track

Originally Posted by gimp

I would rather see the money spent on positive results-focussed rehabilitation and prevention programs rather than emotive "punish them!!" mentality. Stop crime before it happens through reducing poverty etc maybe, cos GETTING TOUGH ON CRIME pretty much hasn't worked awesome ever

Rehab programmes don't work. Ask any long time CO and they'll tell you that crims stop offending when they decide they're sick of getting locked up and not before. Some of the rehab programmes we run in NZ cost upwards of $60k per person, per year. These are the most effective programmes, usually for sex offenders, and these programmes reduce reoffending by a little over 10% for those that participate. That doesn't count the $90k per year it costs to lock them up. Some of the other programmes run in NZ prisons actually make people more likely to offend and we spend over a $billion per year to keep doing something that doesn't work. Mostly we do it because apparently getting tough on crime is a vote winner.

Of the 8k plus people imprisoned at any one time in NZ, guess how many are back in prison five years after getting out? After all the money we spend 'rehabilitating' and 'reintegrating' them back into the community....

50%. That's right. Half of the people in prison now will be back in prison within 5 years. It keeps the justice system ticking over nicely though, and keeps a lot of police, lawyers, judges, prison officers and probation staff in a fairly well paid lifestyle.

What does stop people committing crimes? A decent education, a job, an environment where a prison record is not the norm, or a rite of passage. But hey, it isn't sexy (or a vote winner) to spend money on things like that.

Originally Posted by square1

Hmmm I disagree. What if crappier prison conditions resulted in a reduction in crime?

Doesn't work. It just means they'd have less to lose when they play up. Have you actually been inside a prison? They are miserable, soulless shit holes, full of angry bastards with nothing to do with their days but get angrier.

Originally Posted by scaggly

What does stop people committing crimes? A decent education, a job, an environment where a prison record is not the norm, or a rite of passage. But hey, it isn't sexy (or a vote winner) to spend money on things like that.

that's what I meant by prevention.... better to make sure they never end up in prison in the first place. I don't know about rehab programs specifically so

Sadly, I do know quite a lot about those rehab programmes, and mostly they're useless.

Originally Posted by scaggly

Sadly, I do know quite a lot about those rehab programmes, and mostly they're useless.

Regardless what I would like is the money to be spend on programs that ARE found to be positive. Results focussed spending, not retarded vote-buying

Originally Posted by gimp

Regardless what I would like is the money to be spend on programs that ARE found to be positive. Results focussed spending, not retarded vote-buying

Preaching to the choir...

Originally Posted by scaggly

crims stop offending when they decide they're sick of getting locked up and not before.

That's what I was going to say, and yes I've seen the inside. They're also full of people from all corners of society: educated, from families of repute, dirt poor, innocent, wealthy, etc who have damaged many lives and I believe the punishment often doesn't fit the crime, and far too much effort is put into trying to make someone a better person and far too little into repairing the lives of those affected by the crime.

You're right gimp, a topic for another thread/day

Some of you guys , really miss the point ,

1) The current people in the Police/govT want registration , and because they WANT it , and they are the ones with the real power , it will happen , maybe not today , but in the for near future .
2 ) Facts , like registration , has not & will not work , means NOTHING to them , sorry Spock .
3 ) The Police want the A cat ARs/black rifles stopped , and sooner or latter , that will happen , by hook or by crook .
4 ) The ARs , are not the only thing they want stopped , BUT its high up on the list , others on that list will be semi-auto shotguns & pumps , and others that you would not really think about .
5 ) My maths is shaky , BUT given that I would ONLY let death row run 3-6 mths , YEAP in my book , it would be alot cheaper than 3-4 Million dollars for say 30-40yrs of prison , and IF you cannot do that because you are too soft , please use option " B " , send them to Indo to house them in their prisons , give them say 10k a yr , and it woud be cheaper than the 100k in NZ , and Indo at 10k , would love IT , as they would actually turn a profit on that 10k , and we ( NZ ) love it because we save 90k plus a yr .
6 ) The death penility , would be for pediphiles , spree & serial killers as well , and as such for the killers , it would actually mean less people killed , as these people when released do it again , thats been proven .
7 ) We do have monsters here in NZ , and until you , a) read of what some of them actually DO & believe IT , or b ) have it happen to you or someone you know , you we live in fairy land .
8 ) Prison rehab , its been proven NOT to work for countless years , BUT what does the GovT / Prison still do , you guessed It , rehab , ( the people that run the rehab , are laughing their asses off )
9 ) This country will get worse , as the message we are giving them , is they can do what ever they like , with little in the way of real penilties , we talk too much , and do too little , talk does not hurt them , taking their money , imprisoning & bashing them , are the ONLY things Thugs understand . Not that long ago , the crims where kept in line , as they KNEW the penilites, touch a Cop , you went inside for 3mths , bash a Cop its a yr , very few ever raised a hand to a Cop in the OLD days .They could walk into any Pub in ones or twos , and never have a problem , for If someone did have a go , they whole station , would pay them a visit , bash them and lock them up , and make a mess of the Pub .Thats consequences , they understand that , Laws in them selves do nothing .

Later Chris

Originally Posted by RacingMad

I went into Hunting and Fishing a month ago and brought 3 firearms. I would have thought this would be quite common for shops like this, to see people buy a few firearms at once. H&F only record sales in a book on the counter so i doubt that excessive purchases would be noticed.

True. But go back the next month and do the same. And again. And again. For 18 months. It's not the issue of buying multiple firearms, it's the sheer quantity that seems to have a blind eye turned on it by GunCity - either online or at either of their 2 shops. And that will be raising eyebrows.

The rest of this thread is like listening to talkback radio

Till the dog bites back

Originally Posted by hamsav

prisons are different things to different people ,as someone has said there are some decent well educated people in the pokey and the irony is that most of these bods are already as rehabilitated and remorseful as they can be before the door is locked. These people will tell you prison is an unhappy place to be and ,for them , largely a waste of time .and its their families who really pay the price
Then there are the crims , these guys thrive in the pokey , they socialise with whatever friends are there at the time ,stand over the weaker ones, watch telly ....................its a fuckin holiday camp . For most of them its an occupational hazard at worst . Prison should be a place that no one wants to go back to , a punishment not an alternative lifestyle . This talk of sending them to Indo is a new one on me . I think even just putting that on the table would put the shits up some crims, and I think that a good whipping should be the go for anyone going down for the 3rd time for the same or similar crime........even a dog learns real quick from anything that causes it pain.

While it's fun to say YEAH CONCRETE AND BARS BREAD AND WATER SHIT IN A BUCKET SODOMY IN THE SHOWERS LET THE SCREWS BEAT THEM and it really makes you feel good about how those nasty criminals are getting what they deserve, if it results in a greater rate of reoffending and has no deterrent effect, as May or may not be shown by studies, is that what we really want? Shouldn't we want to actively find what works to reduce crime and do that, rather than just do what gives you a wee punish-the-crooks boner? Idealistic arghh get-tough-on-crime vs "what actually works here?"

Complete agree Gimp.

Also helps to see this whole debate from the perspective of either you or a family member being in prison for whatever reason... If you were behind bars, how would you like to be treated ?

The "hard labour, zero rehabilitation" approach definitely breeds more repeat offenders in my view.

Problem is prison is too late, programs like the Naenae boxing academy etc do more to help young guys getting their shit sorted than any prison rehabilitation program ever would...