Friday, October 28, 2005
The Right To Be Safe?
Safety Inspections: "Western Queensland gun owners will face a safety audit to ensure their weapons are being stored correctly.
The six-month state-wide audit will see police make appointments with randomly selected licenced weapon holders to inspect their storage facilities.
Weapons licencing branch Inspector Mike Crowley says the move is all about positive re-inforcement.
'The legislation is very clear on how firearms are to be stored, and this is purely put in place to act as a safety guideline....'"
A good example of the Franklin's truism about trading freedom for security and ending up with neither.
No need for probable cause or any reasonable suspicions -- just randomly selected gunowners (who already must register in Australia -- so the state can know who has the legal guns and now they can check up so they know exactly where they are kept and if any are missing) all in the name of safety. I have often wondered how long it will be before, in addition to stops for seatbelts, law enforcement can randomly enter homes to check for child proof caps on medicine, sharp corners on tables and furniture, and safety stickers on the top steps of our ladders -- oh, I almost forgot, better check those mattresses to make the tags haven't been removed. After all, we can never be too safe -- it's for our own good, and the good of the collective, I mean commune, er community.
The six-month state-wide audit will see police make appointments with randomly selected licenced weapon holders to inspect their storage facilities.
Weapons licencing branch Inspector Mike Crowley says the move is all about positive re-inforcement.
'The legislation is very clear on how firearms are to be stored, and this is purely put in place to act as a safety guideline....'"
A good example of the Franklin's truism about trading freedom for security and ending up with neither.
No need for probable cause or any reasonable suspicions -- just randomly selected gunowners (who already must register in Australia -- so the state can know who has the legal guns and now they can check up so they know exactly where they are kept and if any are missing) all in the name of safety. I have often wondered how long it will be before, in addition to stops for seatbelts, law enforcement can randomly enter homes to check for child proof caps on medicine, sharp corners on tables and furniture, and safety stickers on the top steps of our ladders -- oh, I almost forgot, better check those mattresses to make the tags haven't been removed. After all, we can never be too safe -- it's for our own good, and the good of the collective, I mean commune, er community.
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 11:55 AM 
