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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/6390494
The Victorian government will ban the sale of machetes from Wednesday after a gang brawl at a shopping centre.
Two males were arrested and another was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition after the incident at Northlands shopping centre.
You can make one with an angle grinder and about half an hour. This is dumb.
Absolutely carrying them around town should be illegal, but they are super useful in rural settings.
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.
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.
Edit: okay I got lost . I thought this was about the Canadian city of Victoria. Turns out it’s…not. I’m leaving this here as a monument of my stupidity.
Victoria is kind of like a Canada of Australia, you’re all good 🤣
You can still use it companies just can’t sell them anymore
And how are you going to get one in the first place?
Are lawn mowers now banned for being full auto machetes?
A lawnmower fight at a shopping centre would be… different.
I legitimately don’t know the specific use case of a machete, what is it?
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.
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
And what happens when it breaks and you need a new one?
I suppose it’s time to move on then. It is just a sharp stick. I’m sure you can use something else
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe not. But guess what , t’s happening so it’s probably gonna have to go down like I just said