Commentary
The government of Western Australia is promising a complete overhaul of firearms legislation, with some new restrictions having already passed in May.
Regardless of what is drafted, any new laws will end up passing through parliament because the Labor government maintains control of both lower and upper houses, allowing it to introduce virtually any legislation unimpeded.
Of course, a disarmed population is defenceless in the face of an external military threat, and more contemporaneously, impending tyranny. It is hard to believe that any supposedly democratic country would be willing to go to the extremes of the former Soviet Union to make sure people do not have the means for self-defence and to fight against impending tyranny….