Ram raids and recidivists

Apparently around 600 dairies plus liquor stores and petrol stations are at serious risk from physical attack by violent thugs and the Government proposes to provide $1.8m to protect them. How pray tell will that happen?

The dairy owners are entitled to go about their lawful business unmolested by these pieces of trash. Before this is finished there will be murders, serious assaults and mayhem, with premises routinely trashed by these drug-fuelled oafs.

One solution is to pinpoint these felons and investigate their backgrounds, not isolate the victims. So why not consider arming the potential victims? Amend the Arms and Crimes Acts to enable this to occur under very stringent controls, including being only permitted to load wadded blank cartridges appropriately called ‘ratshot'. Law-abiding citizens already have the right to use reasonable force to repel danger so give those at risk the option of gun licences, firearm tuition and practice and they are ready to go – fight like with like!

The cost of supplying 600 shopkeepers with automatic pump action shotguns - the gun of choice for many police forces worldwide - at $500 each would be about $300,000 – one benefit being a taxpayer saving of $1.5 million on Ms Bennett's inane scheme, plus the other positive deterrent outcome will enable ready identification of the felons.

R Paterson, Matapihi (Abridged).

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