Leader of the Federal Liberal Party, Sussan Ley, used a semi-automatic rifle to defend herself against an unknown man who was acting strangely towards her when she was a young woman.

She was alone in a remote part of New South Wales. And way back then, in those bad old dark days, she could legally carry a semi-automatic rifle with her for the purpose of self-defense. The incident itself ended relatively undramatically. The man left in a hurry and Sussan never had to pull the trigger, which is good because the rifle wasn’t actually loaded. But even an unloaded rifle is a pretty good deterrent against people who would seek to do you harm. Which is why before the end of this video, I’m going to propose to you a safe and effective legal reform which would help us get back to those bad old dark days where law-abiding people like Sussan Ley could actually protect themselves and have the tools to do so effectively.

Now, Sussan Ley recounted this story recently and she’s received a great deal of positive coverage about the incident from the mainstream media. But I see a little differently. I see this as the final proof, if any more were needed, that Sussan Ley is a rolled gold hypocrite. She loves to talk about the need for women to be kept safe. And yet, she supports policies which are designed to make sure that no modern woman in Australia today will be able to keep herself safe in the same way that Sussan Ley was able to do when she was a younger woman. My name’s Topher Field. This is the Topher Project and I help busy people like you to keep up with the world as it changes around you.

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Now, the further into this story from Sussan Ley we go, the worse it gets for her. And I’m going to be quoting from a news.com.au article which tells the story. She was driving to Queensland to take up a job flying planes. Good honor. And she recognized the need for her to be able to protect herself whilst alone. So she says she swung through a shop in Queanbeyan and bought a rifle. Sounds like a casual shopping trip, like she was picking up a new pair of boots. And to be fair, that’s pretty much how buying a new rifle ought to be. Clearly, there was no waiting time. There was no registration malarkey involved. Sussan even said that the owner of the gun shop said, “This will suit you because you can fit it under the seat.” The purpose of this rifle was not hunting or sport. It was self-defense. She didn’t want it in the boot or in the back. She wanted it within arms reach, and rightly so.

She goes on to say that when she went to sleep that night, she tucked the unloaded gun next to me in the swag. That night, a motorcyclist pulled up to where she was sleeping and asked her, “You on your own, are you?” Sussan says, “A line came to me, I think, from a Clint Eastwood movie. No, I’m here with my tall, skinny mate.” And to be fair, that’s a pretty good line under the circumstances. Now, Sussan finishes the story saying, “By that time, I was shaking. I managed to effectively pick up the gun, points it in his direction, and he disappeared very quickly.”

Okay, fair play to Sussan. She recognized that she would be vulnerable out there on her own. She did something about it. She provided the means of her own self-defense. In this case, a semi-automatic rifle, and her preparation paid off. Now, personally, I’d say she should probably have kept the rifle loaded instead of unloaded. But whatever, in this case, the rifle did its job and kept Sussan safe without a shot having to be fired. And let me be clear, I’m glad that she was safe. I’ve been very critical of Sussan Ley in the past, I’m about to be critical of her again in this video. And for as long as Sussan Ley keeps advocating for terrible policies on everything from the Murray Darling Basin Plan to net zero to globalism, I will keep criticizing her. But I wish her no harm and I’m glad that she had a gun with her on that day. I’m glad that thanks to that gun, that man was not able to do whatever it was that he might have had in mind that night.

But with this incident in her past and with that incident now on the public record, it is in my opinion absolutely unforgivable that Sussan Ley continues to support this long-standing Liberal Party policy against allowing law-abiding Australians, including law-abiding Australian women, to own guns for the purpose of their own self-defense. If you want to own a gun in Australia, you have to provide a lawful excuse in order to qualify for a license. And unfortunately, they don’t accept because you have no damn right to tell me I can’t as an acceptable excuse. And they also don’t accept self-defense as a lawful excuse either.

What’s amazing to me is the hypocrisy of it all.

Guns are used routinely to protect our politicians and there are special Australian Federal Police task force protections for any of the higher profile politicians or the ones that have received any sort of specific threats against them and that’s how it should be. And guns are also used to protect our money as well. But clearly you’re not as important as our politicians and not as important as money because to protect myself and my family is not considered a lawful excuse for you or I to own a gun. It is hypocrisy coming from any politician, but it is especially rank hypocrisy coming from Sussan Ley.

Not only has she spent a considerable amount of her life in the country with guns being a big part of life out on the land. Now, we also know that she not only owned a gun, but she bought it for the purpose of self-defense and then she needed it. She used it successfully for that purpose. And what makes this especially glawing for me is that Sussan to this day professes to care ever so much about the safety and welfare of women. She’s quoted in this very same article as saying, “A lot of women raised the issue of safety. I said at my press club speech that I will always put the safety of women and children above politics.” Never mind the misandry inherent in caring about the safety of women and children, but making no mention of the safety of men.

Let’s not forget that nearly 70% of all murder victims are male.

And yes, it’s true that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are also male. But that makes no difference to the men who are being killed at a ratio of 2:1. And yes, it’s true that intimate partner homicide is overwhelmingly men murdering women. But even with those numbers incorporated into the overall total, still men are twice as likely to be murdered compared to women. So how can the leader of the opposition, someone who presumes to be a future prime minister of all Australians, dismiss that fact out of hand, not even bring up the safety of men? She says, “I will always put the safety of women and children above politics.” So presumably the safety of men. Well, it’s perfectly fine to play politics with that. Is that what she’s saying? You know what? Don’t even bother answering because we both know that our police, our courts, and our politics are anti-men at the moment. And this video is not going to change that. So, let’s just move on.

The bigger and more relevant issue here is that Sussan Ley professes to care about the safety of women while denying those women the exact tool that she as a woman bought and used for the purpose of her own self-defense and had to use in that capacity. She knows how valuable guns are for the protection of women. And don’t give me some BS about how it’s different now. No, it’s not. I wish it were. I wish we lived in a time when I didn’t have to worry about whether my wife is going to be safe when she goes out at night. Or as my daughters grow up and get older, I wish that I would never have to worry about what other people may try and do to them. But we live in a world that is essentially exactly the same as the world was when Sussan Ley needed that rifle to ward off a man who may have had some very evil intentions that night on the side of that remote road in rural New South Wales.

The difference is now that Sussan’s made it. She’s got protection. She’s wealthy. She’s protected. And she’s part of a cabal of wealthy, privileged, powerful, protected politicians who deny to women Australia wide the right to defend themselves in the very same way that Sussan Ley defended herself back then. Hypocrite is too nice of a term. I find this frankly disgusting because Sussan can’t claim ignorance. She can’t say she didn’t know about the problem.

So, in the interest of being constructive and giving us all a way to move forward, let me propose a simple reform to get us started. Something which we all should hopefully be able to agree on pretty easily and will put the right kinds of firearms back into the hands of the right kinds of people so that law abiding Australians, including law-abiding Australian women, will be able to protect themselves from those who would seek to do them harm.

Here’s my proposal. If you’ve been an adult Australian citizen for at least 10 years, and in that time you’ve got no criminal record, then you should be able to get a license to own a shotgun that isn’t a semi-automatic and have that shotgun with you loaded in your home, in your business, and in your car for the purpose of selfdefense.

Now, let’s work through the logic of that step by step. Firstly, specifically shotguns because shotguns are ideal short-range self-defense weapons. They can’t really do a lot of harm out at a distance, which makes them perfect for defending your home without a risk of putting bullets through the front door of the house over the road. You can hurt the thing that you need to hurt, but you’re very unlikely to hurt something out in the distance the way that you might with a rifle. Secondly, this is only for people who have been adults in Australia for over 10 years as citizens. So this creates a de facto minimum age of 28 years. Now these are of course people who we know a little bit about because they’ve been adults in Australia as citizens for 10 years or more. If they’re going to get mixed up in organized crime, we would know about it by now.

And before people object and say, “Oh, all the bikey gangs and all the organized criminals, they’re going to come and get guns under this scheme.” Sweetie, I hate to break it to you, but all those people, they’ve already got guns. There’s over 1 million illegal guns in Australia already. And any serious criminal who wants one has one. No self-respecting criminal, by the way, is going to be getting around with something as cumbersome as a full-size shotgun. They’ve already got a semi-automatic handgun or perhaps a revolver. So, spare me the faux outrage and the oh, but the criminals will get guns. They’ve already got them. It’s only the law-abiding people that are disarmed at present under our current system.

Now, under this scheme, we allow law-abiding people to have those shotguns with them in their cars, in their houses, in their workplaces.

And de facto, of course, this means allowing those people to then carry those shotguns with them when moving between those various locations. But by doing that, we ensure that all of a sudden any criminal that’s thinking about a home invasion, a carjacking, or a store invasion is going to have to think twice because suddenly the incentives for criminals will flip on their heads.

Right now, criminals target homes and cars and stores when they know the owners will be there cuz they want the keys. They want the valuables and they have no fear of people defending themselves because the victims are all disarmed. As a result, what we have right now is armed criminals targeting people, specifically going for the people when the people are there and able to be present so they become victims of violent crime. They’re not just going for property when it’s not attended.

Now, this change in the laws will flip this on its head. Criminals will very quickly go back to doing what they mostly used to do, which was trying to commit their property crimes when the owners aren’t there. See, that’s what happens when they’re afraid of the owners. And all it’s going to take is a couple of these criminals getting shot in the face by a homeowner or a store owner or a car driver. And the entire atmosphere of Australia will change. Law abiding Australians will walk taller and freer. And criminals will be the ones skulking in the shadows. Right now, have you noticed it’s the opposite? Law-abiding people are fearful. And it’s the criminals who were walking around brazenly.

Within 2 to 3 years of a reform like this, we will then be able to talk about further reforms to self-defense and to gun laws that will further expand all of our freedoms and both our right and our ability in real practical terms to defend ourselves against criminals who would do us harm. And who knows, just dream with me here. One day, maybe we will live in an Australia that is so crazy, so free that, I don’t know, just to pluck a random example out of thin air. Maybe one day a young single woman traveling alone in remote New South Wales will be free to buy and carry a semi-automatic rifle for the purpose of protecting herself against predators.

Maybe one day, if we dream, women may one day actually be as free as what Sussan Ley was when she was young. And in the meantime, between now and then, if Sussan Ley had any decency, and if she actually cared about keeping women safe, she wouldn’t spend her time and energy denying to other young women the very freedom that may well have saved her life on that lonely road that night.

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