Yep, nearly every day there’s another incident involving knives.
From the local paper today
The incident in Mackay was about 1 km down the road from my place.
I thought you already needed to provide ID to purchase a knife, more specifically from the likes of Bunnings, unless that’s just a policy they have.
Yeah look, I don’t have the answers about the whole crime thing, but to be fair to Qld Labor they are doing stuff, just not about that. There’s a huge green energy project that they’re working on at the moment, aimed at creating hundreds of low and high skilled jobs, reducing power costs for the average bloke, getting off coal and hitting environmental targets etc. The resulting grid will be all government owned, too. So Origin etc won’t be able to fleece you guys nearly as hard.
I’m less informed about this next bit, but from what I’ve heard crime in general is going down. It’s just knife crime seeing an uptick at the moment, and I’m glad they’re making small changes instead of big draconian ones. These look kind of sensible, and mostly aimed at reducing the ‘knives are tacticool call of duty weapons’ culture that teenage kids might latch onto.
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The Queensland Government already owns the network via Energex / Energy Australia. Origin can still fleece you because the price it pays for power is driven by the energy trading scheme - or how to make money by gambling on energy production and rip customers off. There is no benefit to the scheme participants to drive down electricity cost.
Good luck with the green energy scheme achieving anything other than higher costs. We are pursuing a course of action that is being wound back in Europe because of inefficiencies. Not to mention what happens when the bushfire wipes out the solar farm
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I seen somewhere they were raising the age for punishable crimes… might have been NT can’t remember. 
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Great in 50 years time the NT will be a wasteland of marauders.
It will be like mad Max except without the cool cars.
Or they can build a wall and send all the degenerates there.
Sort of like the movie escape from NY
With out snake pliskin
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Gel Blasters in the news overnight
THIS PEOPLE IS HOW THEY Will BAN BLASTERS.
DICK HEADS LIKE THESE ARE RUINING IT For ALL OF US
If it’s any consolation…
I’m sure, the twenty other, juvenile crimes, that will happen this week…
We be all knife related…
I would like to know the type of Gelblasters used in this incident.
I’m pretty certain that anyone faced with an M4/AR15/AK47/ARP9 etc should have the common sense to realise that they were toys, but a GBB GLOCK pistol or similar would have the average person thinking twice, even though Pistol’s are extremely rare in the legal world of Gun ownership even compared to semiautomatic rifles
But totally agree with @BME where the insane Knife Crimes totally outweigh harmlessly Gelblaster incidents on a daily basis.
I just hate the fact that certain political candidates are trying to group gelblasters in the same life threatening manner as knife crimes/deaths 
Everyone take a few minutes to watch this video and understand what “our” WA and Federal Government is planning across many different levels that will affect everyone in this Country……. Introducing laws as a test case that can be used in every other Australian State if they are passed here.
Using the same tactics that got Gelblasters banned here, but this stuff is even worse 
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Yea been following that. I’ll see all firearms banned in my lifetime for sure.
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Yeah it’s certainly heading that way isn’t it mate 
They just keep slowly chipping away piece by piece, eroding every single little bite from the apple, until there’s not even the core left.
People kick back against major reforms, and yet don’t recognise when things are being taken away from them in little pieces over a long length of time.
Certainly glad that we grew up when we did and can only fight and enjoy the last few things that we still have available to us.
My kids certainly don’t have the opportunity to do the same things that we have had the “privilege” to enjoy
My dad got an air pellet rifle for his 10th birthday but I have to surrender my hobby to the local police station for being to intimidating even though I was on private property with no neighbours in sight. What a world
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Yeah…… the world is going mad mate, and nothing that has been done in the past or present has helped to make the world a better place
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" I don’t understand, we take away the toy guns, make the real guns next to impossible to have and yet crime hasn’t gone down at all, what could the ppl be doing wrong?!"
I imagine is a regular thought going through their heads…
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There’s no comprehensible thoughts going through their heads.
The authorities are facing growing public pressure about knife crimes that result in real injuries and deaths.
Can they legislate knife laws to prevent these incidents from occurring……. NO.
So let’s just drag in scary looking Gelblasters into the same legislation, hammer incidents and whatever made up fear tactics that can be used to push the agenda, along with as many media pictures of scary looking black Assault Rifles to push their fear campaigns.
This ties into the belief that they are actually “cracking down” on crime, but all the while deflecting attention away from the actual threat at hand, which is knife crimes.
If they can drag Gelblasters into the equation and make new laws to ban/restrict/limit their legal use and availability, they will use that as a “win” against violent crimes…… even though the actual real physical harm from knife crime still hasn’t been addressed
But hey, never let the facts get in the way of a good story…… especially when it comes to Politicians
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How to help stop knife crimes
-support facilities (housing assistance, job assistance basically showcasing the benefits of a non violent life)
-risk of genuine incarceration for offenders that a jury genuinely believes can’t be ushered into a respectable life
-government pressure/laws to stop social media platforms from allowing incriminating/unlawful things to be posted
-free or heavily compensated mental health services
-permanent fostering of children at risk from there caretakers and incarceration for caretakers responsible for trauma
-more money put into making every town in Australia a liveable and healthy environment instead of money into large propaganda government builds
-the establishment of a community watch group that isn’t uniformed and reports directly to the police with training that eliminates biases
-recruitment bonuses for officers so more police can be employed
-building specialised schools for at risk teens
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That’s an absolute awesome breakdown of what is needed to be focused on by the Government, but all of those actual goals to achieve through services and funding is simply just way too hard and complicated for them to even think about putting into practice 
It’s so much easier and cheaper to simply promote publicity about “tackling the issues through Legislation” than it is to actually do something genuinely meaningful and effective in the societal sphere of committing real life changes at the very basic root of the problem
Using legislation as a tool to fix everything will only end up biting the whole country in the ass. It’s like using wd40 to fix a rusty hinge sure it might temporarily be smoother and better but the rust will continue to expand and destroy the hinge. When you have legislation as the only tool used to destroy deep issues you shouldn’t be surprised when the country starts recognising Australia as politically unstable and degrading. Political instability is a lot like stagnant water to mosquitoes it has a habit of breeding extremism which is tied in with violence.
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Well said 
As a side note, did I just see Vicpol threatening strike action over pay…
I was doing some target shooting the other day checking sights and thinking this is fun, in the shade on a burning hot day seeing how many 22’s I could get to touch each other at 60yds. Some people just don’t get the enjoyment of it like I don’t get the enjoyment of having my head buried in a phone all day.