It turns out it isn’t really very hard to get an entire country of white people to hand over all of its guns to the government.
I don’t know if this means that Alex Jones is wrong, or if New Zealanders are just pussies. But based on the New Zealanders I’ve met in my life – none of whom appeared to be pussies – it seems to me that Alex Jones is probably just wrong.
I don’t think gun confiscation in the United States will be much harder than this.
AP:
New Zealand authorities said Saturday their country will be a safer place after owners handed in more than 50,000 guns during a buyback program following a ban on assault weapons. But critics say the process was flawed and many owners have illegally stashed their firearms.
The government banned the most lethal types of semi-automatic weapons less than a month after a lone gunman in March killed 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques. The police then launched a six-month program to buy the newly banned weapons from owners.
The buyback ended midnight Friday, with gun collection events staying open late as police reported in a surge in last-minute returns.
Provisional figures indicate 33,000 people handed in 51,000 guns, and another 5,000 guns as part of a parallel amnesty in which owners could hand over any type of firearm without any questions being asked but without getting compensated.
Owners also modified another 2,700 guns to make them legally compliant, while police said they had seized a further 1,800 guns from gangs since March. And police said they’re in the process of collecting another 1,600 guns from gun dealers.
Police Minister Stuart Nash told reporters Saturday that criminals would find it harder to get their hands on assault weapons because they tended to steal them from lawful owners, but those weapons would now be out of circulation.
Wow, great argument.
“We made it so criminals can’t get guns by making it so law-abiding citizens can’t get guns.”
One thing we can say for certain is that this will be used as an example when the US wants to confiscate people’s guns.
They will say “like they did in New Zealand.”