{"id":34818,"date":"2016-10-20T21:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=34818"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:49:45","slug":"stop-the-guns-tony-abbott-saved-australia-again-qldaah-auspol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/stop-the-guns-tony-abbott-saved-australia-again-qldaah-auspol\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the guns: Tony Abbott saved Australia. Again. – @Qldaah #auspol"},"content":{"rendered":"
The debate over the Adler 110 shotgun reaches\u00a0new levels of absurdity in Canberra.<\/h6>\n

\"Stop<\/p>\n

You probably missed it but somewhere back in 2015 Prime Minister\u00a0Tony Abbott<\/a> threw himself into the breach once more to save the country. This time it wasn’t in the path of raggedly dressed refugees on boats. This time it was real. This time he’d stared down\u00a0shotguns.<\/p>\n

We never knew the sacrifice he’d made until this week when he retrospectively\u00a0coined a new three letter slogan,\u00a0‘stop the guns’. More specifically, he’d initiated a customs ban on the importation of the new Adler 110 lever action shotgun that could carry 7 cartridges in its\u00a0magazine over the current legally available model which could carry 5.<\/p>\n

As he told ABC 730’s<\/em> Leigh Sales<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, “These guns were stopped because of the Abbott Government.<\/p>\n

But for the Abbott Government we would now have tens of thousands of these weapons in this country. The Abbott Government stopped them.<\/p>\n

Now I stress, gun owners are good people. But the more guns we have, the more likely it is they’ll fall into the wrong hands. Let’s not forget it only took one ancient shotgun to lock down the city of Sydney as part of the Lindt siege for some 18 hours.<\/p>\n

When it comes to community safety, you’ve always got to err on the side of caution and that’s what the Abbott Government did.”<\/p>\n