Owen Guns Bulletin August 2016 Special Edition 122

Ron Owen Blog August 14, 2016

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Thoughts For The Week

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”– Pericles

Due to Crimtrac registering two million licenced shooters and 25% of the voting public voted for independents or minority parties, two of these parties have asked me personally make suggestions and proposals to assist them in formulating their firearm legislation policies. As this affects all members of the Firearm Owners Association of Australia and all other shooters, I am reminding the members and others of the policy we have followed since our inauguration way back in 1988 and throwing it open for some discussion and hoping to get some feedback.
Firearm Owners Association of Australia website is  http://www.foaa.com.au/general/
Of course without a general meeting we will not change our current policy, but as there is some urgency in this matter and many of the readers of this bulletin will be involved in supporting these new parties during the formulation of their branch structures throughout Australia, some of these moral issues should be now aired.

“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”- Thucydides

FOAA policy has been since its inception, “That as firearm controls, on people of good character have never been shown to improve public safety, that all legislation contrary to this should be opposed”. The opinion of the delegates at that time on what was “good character” was decided to be if the State gave the person a driving licence it obviously trusts them to guide a two ton missile that can change direction and if used irresponsibly can cause much death and destruction, so that is enough.

To arrive at that policy thirty delegates sat around a table for two days and at times the discussion was heated, but eventually that policy was decided on unanimously. The one of the many issues raised was that the State allowed mentally disturbed people, even the criminally insane to walk our streets and drive a motor car. The answer to this of course is that two wrongs do not make a right. We should insist that our representatives legislate to protect the public by isolating the insane and wrong doers and not punish the innocent and leaving them defenceless.

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” Cesare Beccaria (1735-1794)

Many brought up the problem of domestic violence, and quite correctly it was pointed out that it was hardly a remedy to disarm the weak and leave them at the mercy of the strong, that either male or female could be the guilty party in abuse and taking the equaliser away would not stop the problem, families could be poisoned or bashed to death with a beer bottle.

In every serious study of human behaviour no one has proved that the proliferation of firearms has increased the rate of murders or armed robbery in fact most studies find the reverse that firearms save more lives. Police Inspector Colin Greenwood, stated in his study “Firearms Control”, 1972.“No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.”

Of course if one looked at suicide and in some societies where there are less firearms, less will be used in suicides but the suicide rate per population stays the same. It is only a choice factor. In Britain during the 1960s within a 12 month period they changed the lethal coal gas to non lethal natural gas, so no suicide died from gas poisoning, but the suicide rate stayed the same.

The issue of child safety were raised, but all agreed that it was an educational problem for both parents and children, like teaching your children the dangers of water or fire, punishing the innocent to protect the guilty does not work. Check out the futility of swimming pool legislation since its introduction in the 1990s more children have died by drowning every year, yet they punish the innocent forcing them to build a prison around their property instead of teaching children to swim.

“Doctors have been caught using poisons, and those who falsely assume the name of philosopher have occasionally been detected in the gravest crimes. Let us give up eating, it often makes us ill; let us never go inside houses, for sometimes they collapse on their occupants; let never a sword be forged for a soldier, since it might be used by a robber. “ Marcus Fabius Quintilian (35-100 A.D. Institutio Oratoria, II, xv

First End the PTA system, then registration of Long Arms.
So unless some of our members can raise some logical reasons why free peoples rights should be removed I will propose that the new political parties use our policy which has unified us for nearly thirty years. I will also suggest that the first wrong to be righted should be the removal of the Permits To Acquire system followed by the ending of long arm registration, followed by allowing hunting on all crown land followed by the return of semi autos and legalisation of silencers, until the tyranny is ended. Many of our readers will be instrumental in carrying out these remedies as you will be involved with this new libertarian movement that has had its re birth at the last Federal Election. These new parties will struggle, as did the New Country Party, and the Confederate Action Party and the last raising of the One Nation flag, but as long as they do not lose direction and follow the sheep in the Green, Liberal National Party we will succeed.
“I will teach my children weapons and warfare, so they might teach their children science and law, so they might teach their children art and literature.”- Unknown Greek

The Firearm Owners Association of Australia were guided by the principles of liberty as stated in John Locke “Second Treatise of Government”, “That people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, ( property includes firearms, machines and the pursuit of happiness) that they have a foundation superior to the laws of any particular society”. Locke used the claim that men are naturally free and equal, that legitimate political government is the result of a social contract where people in the state of nature conditionally transfer some of their rights to the government in order to ensure stable, comfortable enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property. Since governments exist by the consent of the people in order to protect the rights of the people and promote the public good, governments that fail to do so can be resisted and replaced with new governments. Locke also defends the principle of majority rule and the separation of legislative and executive powers.
We all acknowledge that our current governments have set out to over burden us with legislation and public servants, they have failed to allow us to enjoy our lives and property so deserve to be replaced. Imagine, how much more men and money, (Billions every year) can be returned to policing our streets and isolating criminals from the law abiding community. It could be the end of ‘Car Jacking, and “Home Invasion”.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Cesare Beccaria (1735-1794)

The guiding principle for all ‘none socialist’ independents and new parties should be the freedom of the individual, the enemy will resist with socialist propaganda, its support for the New World Order and call it the modern age, but freedom and rights are timeless, if we are not free we might as well be somewhere else, where we are free.   Fifteen hundred years ago St Augustine was so clear in his statement,
“Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”

We have been dominated, now it is time to replace the old socialists, and right the wrongs that have been imposed on us.
Ron Owen
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There is no Spring without Winter, without Mistakes there is no Learning. There is no Life without Death, without Doubts there is no Faith. There is no Peace without War, without Fear there is no Courage. For without Mistakes, Doubts and Fears there are no pathways to Wisdom.
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E Petition to Parliament that Urgently need your attention.
Just a few days to go ENDS 28th AUGUST 2016.
We want to put forward a strong number of people from our point of view please take a minute to sign this properly endorsed Petition. These are not ‘Change’ that is going to send you a myriad of adverts. This is the Queensland Parliaments site. If we ask for nothing we will receive nothing please give them a vote. ASAP.

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/petitions/e-petitions

Corella Range Complex for Gympie

Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House a 24 years-old promise to replace the Victory Range Gympie. The 1999 “Comino Report” (State Government Rifle Range Advisory Panel) recommended that land, in Corella SF700, be excised from the Curra State Forest to establish a regional shooting complex. Due to strong community support and a 50% annual increase in shooting licence applications the Cooloola Range Complex Association was formed with assistance from local Councils. It lodged a submission to the state government in 2003. Two subsequent “Difficult to Locate Sports” reports identified the need for a new shooting range complex at the Corella SF700 site with Queensland Police approving the range safety templates. In 2014, the Minister for Sport, Steve Dickson, gave an “Agreement in Principle” to revocation of the land, with the proviso of answering four questions, subsequently answered in the 2015 Ross Planning Feasibility report. Minister Steven Miles claims they will honour the “Agreement in Principle” but has imposed a ‘five to one’ land swap, (or equivalent in money) despite this requirement being previously waived. The requirement for a ‘five to one’ land swap, (or equivalent in money) was not contemplated in the original agreement and such an onerous requirement is denying the Gympie region of the economic and social benefits of this new facility.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to immediately excise Corella SF700 from the Curra State Forest, or issue a lease to the local council for a sporting shooters range complex.
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