How insane are the ACT Party? Honestly? Their solution to crime is to arm every shop keeper with a sawn off shotgun???
“Criminals are well aware that shopkeepers are defenceless and are taking advantage of this in brutal robberies. What Act proposes here should reassure the shopkeepers of New Zealand.
“Act says it will not be illegal for a shopkeeper to keep a weapon in their own shop.”
This is fuckwittery at such a colossal level it deserves nothing less than outright contempt. Allowing shop keepers to be armed and strengthen their rights to shoot first and ask questions second is possibly the worst idea to ever come out of anyone’s mouth in any election campaign. Ever.
If there was another reason to not vote for ACT, then this is it. Every Labour Party and Green Party voter who wasted their votes on their own candidates in 2011 need to vote Paul Goldsmith this week and kill off the right wing madness of ACT once and for all.
This is a very odd policy. Not many shopkeepers want the responsibility of a gun licence, pay the fees, own a gun, keep a gun safe from kids. Not many cops want civilian shopkeepers to keep a gun in their shops.
Wtf advises ACT? They aren’t on Planet Key. They are on Planet Rambo.
Guesting – more like Wacky-Doodle Land…
Extraordinarily poorly thought out policy. Violent offenders would only be quicker off the mark to attack, before their victim had a chance to respond. Weapons would be targeted alongside cigarettes in late night break-ins, unless shopkeepers were to carry the weapon home from the premises daily, which is also not a desirable outcome.
I think ACT are now just brainstorming (a laughable concept if ever there was one) and pulling folded bits of paper out of a hat and calling them policies.
I support ACT’s freedom to go out with a bang of their own volition.
They weren’t even good Libertarians.
it seems like ACT just rips a page out of the American Republican Party’s playbook every time they say something..
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