If we want to prevent the kinds of terrible atrocities that sparked off the wave of firearm legislation that has occurred over the last two years, then we need to focus on making sure that the wrong people, the people who have shown their character to be unfit to have firearms, don't have them. We also need to accept that firearms are present in New Zealand; that is a physical reality that can't easily be changed by our laws. If we make it so difficult and lose the trust of the good, law-abiding people who have been deemed fit and proper, then we're going to end up in a much worse space than we have been. That's what the last two years have shown since Stuart Nash cavalierly banned a whole lot of firearms and ended up with more of them on the streets with the gangs, leading to the police wanting to be armed themselves because it's got so bad. Instead, if we start targeting the people who shouldn't have firearms, then there is some hope of good lawmaking, laws that are respected, and safer streets for New Zealanders.