Illegal firearms blamed for increase in AOS callouts

04 Mar 2011 05:05p.m.

Dave wrote:

Unfortunately, "To the dickheads that hide in a bubble" is one of a few nut cases still around living in their own bubble that is due to burst with a reality shock he is still living in a hazy dream world of what once was over 50 years ago. Generally, cops are no longer there to protect and help. They are there primarily to fund raise through minor traffic prosecutions while letting the real criminals get away helped by weak judges with their wet bus ticket diplomacy of little or no punishment and wiping fines for previous convictions with absolutely no realistic or acceptable justification understood by the rest of the community.

24 Feb 2011 05:51a.m.

To the dickheads that hide in a bubble wrote:

At the end of the day it is lives of law abiding people that matter. I person talks about tasers, if u read the fact about them they kill 20persent of people that have them deployed on them. The americans dont use them in most states why??. Now for all you fuckwits that live in a bubble, one day you will be hurt raped killed or know some one that will be. these people are armed weather we like it or not. Should a people office take on an armed crimal to protect you unarmed. Is your life more inportant than his?
They do a wonderful job, no one rings the police to come around for a bbq, it is always the shit they deal with. Arm the police to protect them and one day he maybe able to protect you or some one close to you.
By the way we have about 9000 crimals in jain and another 50000 in the probation service who put them there to protect you??????.

22 Feb 2011 03:35p.m.

Denise wrote:

'terror machine' comes across as somewhat illiterately presumtive and ignorant of factual reality. Maybe even a cop him/her/itself. For terror machine's information, I have no fear of guns and in fact hold a NZ collectors gun licence including sidearms with an extensive, registered, private and secure collection of many guns myself. I have been professionally trained in the use of a full range of firearms and know what I said in my last blog to be factual. My comments are also backed up by personal knowledge through personal association with long serving and senior NZ police officers. I can only suggest the not so intelligent 'terror machine' waits till that thing between his shoulders comes to a more mature head before he squeezes it again.

22 Feb 2011 11:33a.m.

Kiwi wrote:

What Greg O'Connor is really saying is NZ Police have lost all confidence in the Justice system to manage crime and Police are now shit scared to do their job so gives us all guns and we will sort this problem out in the streets!

22 Feb 2011 11:13a.m.

Observer wrote:

If Police Association president Greg O'Connor honestly believes there is now a very real risk to the safety of his members over and above the accepted risk of the job then he has every right under the HSE Act to call for his members to walk off the job and the matter could be settled in Court. But no - O'Connor continues to try and politically manipulate the statistics in favour of his argument and TV3 assists him with this latest Poll, the results of which have no substance or credibility and are therefore invalid. General arming of Police is just an excuse for more shoddy Policing, poor management of high risk situations and lack of adequate support systems for Police such as adequate manning and training. Besides, Police already have access to Tasers (and this could be increased) and have been promised better front line access to firearms. For O'Connor to suggest that it will probably take a mass killing where police were forced to "stand by and watch" for police to become fully armed, is alarmist and irresponsible. The man is arguably becoming obsessed with this notion of general arming and one really has to wonder about his mental health given the facts - it sounds like he and others in the Police who are equally obsessed with this notion need counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome more than than need firearms! Either way I wouldn't like to see NZ Police generally armed if they have lost the ability to differentiate between real and perceived threat!

22 Feb 2011 08:32a.m.

Alex wrote:

Ignore Terror Machine, he/she/it obvious has been brainwashed by watching too many cop movies

21 Feb 2011 05:13p.m.

Terror Machine wrote:

Both Denise and Chargone can F right off, you are both a pack of wankers. Why should I have access to less guns because you sterile twats dont like them, getting rid of firearms just makes it harder for legit owners to get access, the thieving of arms will just increase if your dumb founded idea ever came into effect. As for the Police not being armed, Its people like you who ruin this country. Give the Police more arms and freedom to use them, then there would be less scum in our societies. Either of you would be the first to complain that the police didnt act quick enough or with enough force if someone had a gun at your head. If either of you were capable of making better judgement calls you would be out there showing up the police, but as suppected neither of you are. They have a shit job at the best of times and wankers like you only make their job more shit. All the police should go on strike for a few days then you whinging twats would start to appreciate the hard work they put in so you muppets can enjoy going out without getting your heads stoved in. Oh and do the world a favour, Dont breed.

21 Feb 2011 03:24p.m.

Denise wrote:

O'Conner calls for more armed police when they are already unable to manage the arms they have. What a wanker. Through poorly trained police, an innocent civilian was killed by police at Western Springs by a cop who did not check his line of fire before shooting in a built up area. Checking your 'Line of fire' is one of the most basic safety checks that must happen before firing a gun anywhere. Keep the Tazers but scrap the gung-ho side arms suggestions because one civilian death is one too many. Also, not a single cop death would have been saved if guns had been available any more than they were at the time these police were shot.

21 Feb 2011 01:09p.m.

Chargone wrote:

surely, if this reason for the increase in problems is correct, the proper response is not to put More weapons into circulation? rather, it would be more useful to cut off the supply... NZ has a decent history of improving places it's military is sent by Removing weapons from general use there... why should our own country be different, really? well, i Guess our police are less likely to supply criminals and rebels from their armouries... still, how does 'let's add to the number of weapons in use' make more sense as a solution to 'more illegal weapons are being used' than 'make it harder/impossible to get said illegal weapons'?