Once again we see the ineffective politicians responding to crime on the Gold Coast with the usual attack on law abiding firearm owners. While the police have some commonsense comments around whether gun crime is actually higher or whether it is now just being reported more often the Police Minister resorts to the usual show of ineffective action by quoting the Adler shotgun laws and chooses to have a shot at their political competitors instead. This continued partisan approach to addressing law and order concerns by dragging law abiding firearm owners into the discussion through raising the Adler shotgun laws shows the current political class has lost their way on law and order and instead seeks to continue pushing their gun grab agenda. The original article in the Gold Coast Bulletin is around violent TV shows driving or motivating gun violence in the locale. Last time I looked we had national television - do we have the same violence nationally? Seems to me this is a pretty old view from the 80s and 90s, and one that I thought had been relegated to the bin a long time ago. Is the natural conclusion that we should still permit freedom to consume violent TV shows but licence the viewers? Only after a psychology evaluation and safety training course will they be allowed to view these TV shows like maybe Game of Thrones? Vikings? Wait they're violent but nobody is driving around the Gold Coast throwing war axes at peoples houses. There really has got to be a point where the people we elect or choose to serve as expert advisors gain a foothold in reality rather than the outlandish fancies of academia and the political elite.