A quick word
Bolt-action rifles are the best for hunting game animals, because they are far more accurate. So there is no valid reason to have semi-automatics, except in the tightly controlled case for killing a large number of pest animals. The only reason for Act’s desire to allow semi-autos is to cater for a few shooting enthusiasts. That is nowhere near enough to justify the bringing back semi-autos. Alison and Rex Beer, Whangapara¯oa.
Act and National need to reflect on how much worse the Bondi attack would have been if the perpetrator was using a gun. Especially the sort gun lobbyist Nicole McKee wants to reintroduce. Why is she anywhere near our gun laws when she has such a huge conflict of interest?
Cheryl Taylor, Mt Eden.
Christopher Luxon has often been shown speaking to young children in primary schools. Now David Seymour has visited an early childhood centre. I have a serious question — were the parents of the children visited by these politicians asked for their consent to such visits?
Greg Cave, Sunnyvale.
Boot camp advocate David Seymour is calling Jacinda Ardern authoritarian. What planet is he on? Ardern made the hard decisions that saved 20,000 NZ lives. We are one of a tiny number of countries whose life expectancy went up instead of down. That is wise governance, not authoritarianism. Gabriel Brettkelly, Morningside.
ACC should use Uber for its taxi service. It’s efficient and cheaper.
Chris Elias, Mission Bay.
The stabbings in a Sydney mall highlight that the Mental Health Act is a vital piece of legislation. Without it, we would be in a very dangerous place. The only problem is we do not have the resources to effectively manage our most at-risk. We must not wait for incidents like this to incite an acknowledgment that mental health resourcing is desperately flawed.
John Ford, Taradale.
The Helen Clark Foundation says NZ must increase exports from our “food and fibre” industry as this is “crucial to NZ’s prosperity and standard of living”. The anti-farmer lobby says we must slash our sheep and beef numbers. Which is it to be?
John Denton, Napier.
Who in their right mind would suggest building a tunnel on a faultline in Wellington? Please tell me I have misunderstood the suggestion, all to save 15 minutes’ travel. Isn’t money in short supply, which was the reason the ferries contract was cancelled?
Sue Gallahar, Ma¯ngere East.
That Bishop Tamaki would have us believe that he had no knowledge that his grandson-in-law painted the rainbow crossing white is miraculous. A bigger miracle is to believe that Destiny Church won’t pick up the tab.
Ian Doube, Rotorua.
A conviction and an $18,000 penalty for painting over the rainbow crossing seems extreme when a youth who rapes two under-age girls and molests another only pays $1000 to each victim.
Katherine Swift, Kohimarama.
Most school science labs have a glass prism to demonstrate the diffraction of white light into rainbow colours. Will Destiny Church be demanding that all prisms are destroyed in order to protect developing minds from exposure to rainbowwashing?
Norm Murray, Browns Bay.
With his use of the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, Donald Trump has aptly identified his own personal complaint.