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Machetes to be banned from sale in Victoria the wake of Northland Shopping Centre brawl (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nova_ad_vitum 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are lawn mowers now banned for being full auto machetes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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