Thread: Firearms ban in Western aussie

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

so.....the gangs are left to do as they please and the drug dealers are whacked with wet bus ticket then offered councilling for the trauma afterwards BECAUSE???? the polititions have realised the gangs are now so big that everyone in country who votes is tied into someone with a patch??? and the drug problem is so huge the connection is even bigger...radio as typing this says the addicted in Gisborne will be suffering and may need hospitalization and in some cases deprivation may lead to death.....

I think the answer is a whole lot more complex and nuanced than just go hard and lock the sons of bitches up.

There is an employment component, an associates and community component, a pride component, a family component, a money component, a solo parent component, an education component, a lack of belonging, of excitement....and it isn't accidental that gaining a patch involves doing something that makes it impossible to be accepted back into "polite" society.

I don't think that any party is courting the gang vote, but I do think that doing the things that will fix it are going to be hard, and could risk the voter base of some of the parties.

If it was simple the fix would have been done already.