Most of those involved have already been released.
The police have the necessary powers to intercept, disarm and arrest these idiots before they’re brawling in public spaces.
So we need to ask why the police continue to fail to prevent crime.
The machete ban is still ridiculous and failing to address the actual causes of violence.
Break up these gangs. Take the idiots devices. Ban them from the internet. Split them up at school. Fill their free time with community service.
Hammer them into line with community expectations is what I’m saying. Before more end up dead.
Classic dumb cunt thinking the amnesty bins were the solution to the problem rather than being for people to drop off their soon-to-be-illegal weapons.
Hopefully those who were promoting the machete ban and trying to convince other states to follow suit see what Blind Freddie could have and realise that they only screwed over normal people rather than those who get into street fights with machetes.
Who did the machete ban inconvenience exactly? They’re not even a good tool for Australia.
And, if you watch the YouTube videos of people showing how “critical” they are, it was clear they had never used one and were just complaining, and using them as a political argument (same people who claim they can’t use the roads because of potholes)… or people who claim they need 10+ guns
Last video I saw was someone using it in long grass basically, and it was clear they were in a park from some of their camera angles, and we’re simply acting for the camera.
Nobody actually uses them. In fact, I tried to buy one a few years back, and nobody sold them anymore (not even bunnings)
But, if you tell the local far right wing population they can’t buy something, they’ll blow it out of proportion and pretend like the world is falling.
Even park rangers weren’t using them it seems and it’s hilarious that people talking about the ban never seem to be using machetes themselves, and are talking on behalf of people who likely don’t even exist
Who did the machete ban inconvenience exactly?
People who had one and used it for the actual purpose of the tool rather than street fights.
I’ve had one for a few years now and it’s been quite useful, particularly when you want something more portable than a brushhook (which is another useful tool idiots would probably like to ban because it looks scary). I don’t live in Victoria but the push to expand the ban would directly inconvenience me.
Believe it or not it’s not just the far right who use edged tools, and it’s annoying how often people who don’t have or use one feel the need to pop up and speak authoritatively about how nobody should use one because they don’t (this goes all the way down to pocket knives sadly).
