Comment on Machetes to be banned from sale in Victoria the wake of Northland Shopping Centre brawl

naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you ban the tool, people who legitimately use the tool are harmed, and the people who abuse the tool will just find something else.

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  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not like it’s banned across Canada. They will still be available elsewhere on the island even.

    This is just as dumb as local city and state gun laws in the US. Gun nuts point at them and point out how they don’t work. Like no shit they don’t work when you can just drive for 20 mins and get one.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Victoria is kind of like a Canada of Australia, you’re all good 🤣

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can still use it companies just can’t sell them anymore

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And how are you going to get one in the first place?

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• GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Are lawn mowers now banned for being full auto machetes?

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  • Echinoderm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A lawnmower fight at a shopping centre would be… different.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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• Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I legitimately don’t know the specific use case of a machete, what is it?

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  • InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rural NSW bushland - heaps of people around here have machetes and cane knives. Useful for cutting through vines, small saplings, lantana, etc. My cane knife is probably my 3rd most used tool when doing outdoor work on my property.

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    • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah fair enough. You will still be able to use and keep the one you’ve got though. It’s a sales ban not an ownership ban

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      • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And what happens when it breaks and you need a new one?

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