The true backdrop is months—it stretches well back into last year—of extreme violence being perpetrated by gang members and associates: execution-style killings in Auckland; a mother gunned down on her own doorstep because her son, who had gang affiliations, wasn't at home; multiple homicides in Tauranga—a house there, a home, shot up with a semi-automatic firearm. So much gang violence, particularly involving firearms, and this Government doesn't want to deal with the issue. Instead, it wants to focus on those people that don't break the law, because, of course, punishing the innocent is how you reduce crime, or at least they seem to think so.