Farmers Set to Bear Brunt of Australian Gun Laws

As it stands, a lot of people in Australia haven’t been able to own a gun for a very long time. Sure, many could, but far more couldn’t. 

It didn’t stop a father and son duo with ties to ISIS from not just getting firearms, but then using them to mow down innocent Jewish worshippers trying to celebrate one of the holiest times of the year, and not just for Jews.

But, anti-gunners are gonna anti-gun, and what we saw in Australia is what people expect to play out everywhere else. There’s going to be new gun control, and the people who will feel it the most won’t be the people the government should be worried about.

Nationals MP Michael McCormack says farmers have been made to “bear the brunt” of Anthony Albanese’s gun reforms. 

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“Giving up their guns when they desperately need them for their livelihoods to rid their farm of feral pests.”

No, “feral pests” isn’t a euphemism for people farmers don’t like or the guys who date the farmers’ daughters and don’t treat them perfectly.

Well, not usually, anyway.

The truth is that any farm is going to have problems with animals that many people like to look at, but become pests when they start eating your crops. Deer are beautiful creatures to see in the woods, but if they’re eating in your peanut fields, as they do here in Georgia, they become a problem. Wild hogs are just a pest in general, so yeah, farmers here want to kill them.

Australia has its own challenges in the form of animals that eat the crops and reduce the farmers’ yields. That’s money out of their pockets and food off their tables. They have to have the means to put an end to these animals, which can destroy entire fields if left unchecked.

Let’s understand that many Americans want Australian gun control laws here in the United States. Former President Barack Obama explicitly stated he favored Australia’s system over our own. Now, though, Australia is set to make restrictions even tougher, and those will impact farmers more than many others, especially since some of the talk is about limiting the number of guns, which means fewer possible firearms to deal with pests at any given moment.

Of course, for many, the real question is whether it’ll stop the next attack.

It won’t.

Australia’s gun control laws didn’t stop this one. It didn’t stop the attacks that came before this, but after Port Arthur. New laws won’t stop new attacks. All that it will do is throw up a couple of roadblocks that might make it easier to get something more deadly than a bolt-action rifle.

Meanwhile, the farmers and other Australians who did nothing wrong will be penalized because that’s all anti-gun politicians throughout the world know how to do.

It’s nothing more than the teacher who punishes the classroom because one kid talked, only played out on a national stage. Which is sad because people understand that collective punishment is wrong. It’s considered a war crime to do so to prisoners of war, after all. Yet that’s the core of what Australia and other gun control nations are doing.

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