Machete ban Victoria down under

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Steggy

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Due to excessive machete use in mainly youth crimes. All machetes are now banned in the state of Victoria, an amnesty has started and possibly licensing for existing possession or use?
 
I need to bother to read the law, since the news version doesn't make a lot of sense (not that it needs to) I just wonder how it goes for rural and forestry use?
 
gadgetgeek said:
I need to bother to read the law, since the news version doesn't make a lot of sense (not that it needs to) I just wonder how it goes for rural and forestry use?
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I think those uses should be ok? Just lock it away in toolbox 🧰 in back of ute 🛻 when in town? Don’t flash one’s machete around and she’ll be right! 🦘🦘🦘 I’m up on Boyne Island 🏝️ QLD too mate
 
The masses clapping like trained seals and celebrating another authoritarian law introduced.

It was already illegal to carry a machete or knife in VIC. We don’t need more laws or tougher laws, we just needed existing ones to be enforced.

I wanted to get a machete for pre harvest to sample crops, it’s hardly worth going through the hassle now.
 
Hatchet_Jack said:
The masses clapping like trained seals and celebrating another authoritarian law introduced.

It was already illegal to carry a machete or knife in VIC. We don’t need more laws or tougher laws, we just needed existing ones to be enforced.

I wanted to get a machete for pre harvest to sample crops, it’s hardly worth going through the hassle now.
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You still can buy a machete before the ban I suppose? They’re not hard to obtain
 
Steggy said:
You still can buy a machete before the ban I suppose? They’re not hard to obtain
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What about a billhook? They are not a machete, per se, but have a very sharp blade that can perform in a similar fashion. I feel sorry for the Australians. They have no Second Amendment like the United States to affirm their rights to possess firearms and edged weapons; their socialist overlords are hell-bent on disarming them and turning them into helpless sheep.
 
BootKnifeFan said:
What about a billhook? They are not a machete, per se, but have a very sharp blade that can perform in a similar fashion. I feel sorry for the Australians. They have no Second Amendment like the United States to affirm their rights to possess firearms and edged weapons; their socialist overlords are hell-bent on disarming them and turning them into helpless sheep.
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Any blade over 20cm but these laws only pertain to the state of Victoria not the whole continent! The laws shall protect one’s people!
 
I think the biggest problem is that the Sudanese Youth Gangs in Victoria use Machetes as their weapon of choice, no different to what they did in their own country, perhaps it's not the Machetes we should be banning, just saying.
 
Bellicus said:
I think the biggest problem is that the Sudanese Youth Gangs in Victoria use Machetes as their weapon of choice, no different to what they did in their own country, perhaps it's not the Machetes we should be banning, just saying.
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Are you being racist? These people are Australians!
 
about any tool can be used as a weapon.....

ban one tool and the troublemaker will grab the next one. old as time itself. violence has been banned and yet that doesn't stop it. going after tools has always been a waste of time and doesn't drive down violent crime rates. never has, never will. only thing it will affect is lowering violence reports with that particular tool. the rate of violence still stays high as it always has. this is a game the uk and other countries has been playing for a very long time.

time and energy is far better spent on what is causing the violence than banning a tool.
 
jbmonkey said:
about any tool can be used as a weapon.....

ban one tool and the troublemaker will grab the next one. old as time itself. violence has been banned and yet that doesn't stop it. going after tools has always been a waste of time and doesn't drive down violent crime rates. never has, never will. only thing it will affect is lowering violence reports with that particular tool. the rate of violence still stays high as it always has. this is a game the uk and other countries has been playing for a very long time.

time and energy is far better spent on what is causing the violence than banning a tool.
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It's all about making people think things are changing because the real problems are always a lot harder if not nearly impossible to actually solve.
They get the media on their side to make people think the machete's themselves are the problem and if we can just take these scary mass murder devices away it'll alo be over, because of course it's much easier to put all the blame on an object you can ban then adress the root cause.
 
stabman said:
Maybe they should try banning murder and assault with a weapon...🤔
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Hickory n steel said:
It's all about making people think things are changing because the real problems are always a lot harder if not nearly impossible to actually solve.
They get the media on their side to make people think the machete's themselves are the problem and if we can just take these scary mass murder devices away it'll alo be over, because of course it's much easier to put all the blame on an object you can ban then adress the root cause.
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only a fool or weak minded person falls for those political spin games though......
 
BootKnifeFan said:
What about a billhook? They are not a machete, per se, but have a very sharp blade that can perform in a similar fashion. I feel sorry for the Australians. They have no Second Amendment like the United States to affirm their rights to possess firearms and edged weapons; their socialist overlords are hell-bent on disarming them and turning them into helpless sheep.
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Like most countries here in Europe. Unfortunately.
 
jbmonkey said:
only a fool or weak minded person falls for those political spin games though......
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If you go to any major city that has asinine laws like this and interview people on the street, a large number if not majority of them will be in agreement with these laws because they fell for it.
They fell for the lies and actually believe that banning these " scary " objects will save lives.
 
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