Lawmaking to make the already illegal, more illegal?
Reports of a central-government proposed bill to discourage juvenile ram-raiders smacks of deja-vu, akin to that of prohibiting semi-automatic centrefire rifles following the mass-murders by a terrorist in Christchurch just four years ago. Just as everything the offender in Christchurch did was illegal, so are the mis-deeds of the ram-raiders. Most of these raiders don’t […]