The Real Issue is Who is Behind the Machetes, By James Reed

Leith van Onselen writes about Melbourne's machete experience:

"A record 14,797 knives, swords, daggers, and machetes were seized in 2024, renewing calls for a tougher weapons crackdown.

The stories are all too common. Teenagers commit assaults, burglaries, or carjackings only to receive a slap on the wrist and be released back into the community to commit more crimes.

Melburnians shouldn't have to fortify their homes like Fort Knox and sleep with one eye open.

If half as much effort were placed on law and order as was spent policing the pandemic lockdowns and mask-wearing, Melbourne's crime wave would be finished.

Law and order are essential state government responsibilities, and the Victorian Allan Government failed dismally."

All so true, but merely banning machetes does not deal with this issue, as the ferals will just use some other improvised weapon. At worst, they can make weapons from scrap steel or wood. Rocks are everywhere and no ban will stop their use. The real issue is WHO is doing the home invasions? Statistics of ethnicities are not kept, or if they are, are not advertised, as it would be damaging to multiculturalism and mass immigration. So, governments always take the easy way of blaming the weapon, as with the gun control issue.

In English law, the term "deodand" (from Latin deodandum, "given to God") applied to objects that caused death—like a cart, a knife, or a mill wheel—which were then forfeited to the Crown or Church, supposedly to appease divine wrath. A 13th-century case might see a horse-drawn cart that crushed someone declared a deodand, sold off, and the cash funnelled to charity or royal coffers. This wasn't a "trial" with a judge and jury in the modern sense but a legal ritual to assign guilt to the thing itself. Sir Edward Coke's 17th-century writings nail this down—objects weren't sentient, but they were culpable.

The Victorian government as far as weapons goes seems to revert back to a type ofdeodand, a pre-modern superstition. Anything so long as no-one serious looks at those doing the machete wielding.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/melbourne-has-fallen/