So, they were forced to hand in the guns? The article says that the government bought the guns back from the citizens.
Do you see the irony here? Maybe you don't. You are up to your chin in alligators.
First, the government used YOUR tax money to "purchase" your guns. Secondly, the article refers to the program as a "mandatory gun buyback program". The wording implies that the government formerly owned the guns, the citizens bought them originally from the government, and finally the government bought them back. The government didn't "buy back" the guns, they confiscated the guns.
Secondly, if the purpose was to implement a strict set of laws concerning gun ownership, Firearms Registry for example, why buy the guns? Why not allow people to keep the guns, while waiting to obtain the required permits?
In reality, you can't "own" a gun in Australia. You just think you can. It's all about wording and obfuscation. When I own something, I am free to use it anyway I want. I don't need anybody's permission. I don't need to give anyone a reason. I don't need the government's permission to use a screwdriver. I just go to the hardware store, purchase a screwdriver, and use it however it pleases me.
I'm guessing that most Australians didn't go through all the bureaucratic hoops to "buy back" their own guns. Thus, rather than making Australians safer, they made them less safe because the government removed the deterrent against the common criminal that comes to the house at night to steal your stuff or rape your wife.
Do you know what this means?
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
This statement comes from our constitution. This second amendment to our constitution enumerates our unalienable rights as citizens, which stands above the laws of the land. It acknowledges that God will hold each individual personally liable for responsibilities he assigns to that particular individual. The basis of the second amendment is the fact that God will hold a man responsible to protect his family from evil, and that since each individual is personally answerable to God for the protection of his family, he will hold the government accountable if it should infringe on a man's right to protect himself, his family, and his neighbors.
If this is true, then it applies worldwide. If true, then every human being, by virtue of being a creature under God's rule, must be allowed to not only protect himself and his family, but to protect his town or his village.
Bottom line, God is going to hold every individual on the planet personally responsible for allowing the government to usurp that responsibility. We can hire the government to help us, but the government should never encroach or infringe upon the individual's authority to protect his family. And the individual person would violate God's will if he or she should give up sovereignty to the state.
Individual Australians are violating God's will.
