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SSANZ Newsletter March/April 2005 First published
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(SSANZ SSANZ) Newsletter – March/April
2005 Newsletter - March 2005 Gunsafe spokesman convicted A Huntly lawyer (and Gunsafe spokesman) Mike Meyrick
has been found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice after
Judge Mike Behrens, QC, released his reserved decision following a recent
defended hearing in the Hamilton District Court. Meyrick wasn’t a credible witness, the judge
ruled. Meyrick was originally charged with storing images
of child pornography in his computer, but the additional charge of attempting
to pervert the course of justice was laid after he allegedly took a computer
tower from his daughter’s Police were interested in the tower after
allegations were made to them about what it contained. Mike Meyrick has repeatedly been used by Gunsafe as
their number two spokesman, whenever Philip Alpers was unable or unwilling to
make comment in the media. This was especially the case following Alpers
bungled appearance on TV3’s “The Ralston Show”, when Alpers
“blew it”, by attacking official gun-safety programmes designed
to educate kids about safe firearm handling practices. Even Bill Ralston found it incredulous that we
should protect children by educating them about the risks of drowning,
stranger danger and crossing the road, while Gunsafe’s strategy for
protecting kids from firearm accidents was to keep them ignorant. Thereafter, Gunsafe exclusively used Meyrick as
their main spokesman - for instance, he appeared on “The Holmes
Show” to challenge SSANZ after the Since then he has occasionally appeared on TV,
adopting an extremely critical stance towards police, including making
unsubstantiated claims about police brutality. Meyrick subsequently worked as
a lawyer in Huntly. Gunsafe, a small but vociferous anti-gun lobby group
that (thankfully) seems to have virtually self-destructed in recent times, is
a private trust, not an incorporated society, thus it is not required to hold
annual elections. Instead it has always self-appointed its own office
bearers. For that reason it is not clear whether Meyrick still holds his
“Gunsafe Spokesman” title. Playing
with guns is ‘good for boys’ Banning boys from playing with
toy guns is futile and may even damage their development, a leading child
psychologist has warned. Confirming what many guilty parents long suspected,
Penny Holland says boys will indulge in gunplay regardless of attempts by
schools, nurseries and guardians to stop them. But in a new book, “We Don’t Play With
Guns Here”, She argues that the zero-tolerance approach that
emerged in the 1960s and 1970s was wrong to assume that “the spiral of
male violence” could be broken by preventing boys from playing
aggressive games. Pieces of wood, tennis rackets and even pens and
crayons, all became guns, swords, and daggers in the fertile young
imagination. The legislation will bring The registration of all the guns in the country was
recommended seven years ago in a government-commissioned review of firearm
laws carried out by Sir Thomas Thorpe. Neither the previous nor the present
government acted on Thorpe’s recommendation, which many commentators felt
was not supported by the data contained in the report itself, thus Mr Hawkins
has now taken registration off the agenda. “The police have told the Government that
registration wouldn’t make very much difference to crime statistics,
and they recommended that we did not register every firearm,” the
Minister said on National Radio. “Police advice was that most of guns
used in crime are illegal guns and they wouldn’t appear on any
registration database anyway.” New
Arms Amendment Bill Cabinet has approved the introduction of a new
“Arms Amendment Bill” which at the time of writing had not yet
been introduced into Parliament. The Bill imposes strong penalties on a range of
offences and enables As stated above, there is no provision for the
introduction of a universal firearms registry, but the import and export of
firearms will be more tightly controlled. Taken as a package this appears to be a Bill that
responsible firearms owners and the police should both accept. In due course
it will be referred to the Select Committee and all interested parties will
be given an opportunity to make submissions. Wild game
diet wins approval Dr. Mark Vennu, a nutritionist, sport scientist and
“non-hunter”, says that our bodies evolved on a diet of wild game
– a diet that lowers fat and decreases heart disease and cancer. It is
a diet that “erect walking humans” have eaten for seven million
years and it is simple. The doctor is one of many who believe that humans
today would be much healthier if they consumed the original hunters’
diet. Wild game, fruit and vegetables – the food we have lived on for
99.5% of our time on earth. Here is a nutritionist telling the world, telling
vegetarians, telling all the fast junk food eaters, that wild game is the
basis for man’s health. He says the “nutritional quality of such
meat (venison, bison, antelope, wild pork etc) differs considerably from that
of the meat available in modern supermarkets. The latter has much more fat.” Not only is
there more fat in domesticated animals, its composition is different. Wild game contains over five times more
polyunsaturated fat per gram than is found in domestic livestock. Mankind evolved eating wild game and genetically we
have changed only 1.6% percent over the past six to seven million years. So
the antis who continually tell anyone who will listen that “modern
man” has somehow changed in the last 50 years and that we do not need
to hunt for meat, are in La La land, Dr Vennu says. A slate full of other doctors and nutritionists
agree with his conclusions – they now accept that our nutritional diet requirements
were established in prehistoric times when wild game was our principal, and
probably only, source of protein.
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