From Machete Attacks to a National Embarrassment

In Australia, machete assaults have become so common that nightly news reports treat them like the weather forecast — a grim feature you can count on seeing. And instead of cracking down, lawmakers are pushing machete drop-boxes to invite criminals to surrender their weapons.

Yes, instead of arresting violent offenders, they’re hoping the same thugs who terrorize neighborhoods will have a sudden change of heart and neatly deposit their machetes into a government bin.

This is the inevitable result of a political culture that bans firearms for self-defense and replaces strong law enforcement with empty “turn-in” schemes.

Gun Control Fails, Criminals Win

Australia’s history is a warning. Decades of gun confiscation have left law-abiding citizens disarmed, while criminals ignore the rules entirely. When the armed law-abiding majority is stripped of the tools to defend themselves, only the most ruthless criminals remain armed — with no fear of meeting armed resistance.

The same is true for machete violence today: you can’t legislate morality into gang members, and you can’t expect hardened criminals to “comply” their way into being peaceful citizens.

Texas is Armed and Ready

Here in Texas, we know that the best defense against violent criminals is an armed, prepared citizenry. When a machete-wielding thug or any other violent criminal threatens life and limb, the victim’s chance of survival skyrockets when they have the means to fight back immediately — not wait on a 911 response that may arrive too late.

Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt puts it plainly:

“If you ban the tools of self-defense, you hand the advantage to criminals. Texans will never stand by while politicians trade our safety for virtue-signaling policies that don’t work.”

That’s why TXGR fights every day to ensure Texans can carry the firearms they choose, without red-tape delays or government approval slips, so no one is ever forced to face a violent attacker empty-handed.

Our Warning to Texas

The “drop-box” mentality may play in Canberra or Melbourne, but if we let anti-gun zealots gain ground in Texas, it’s only a matter of time before they try the same here. That means criminals keep their weapons, law-abiding Texans lose theirs, and the balance of power shifts dangerously toward those who do harm.

We’re not letting that happen. Texas Gun Rights will keep standing firm: disarm criminals, empower citizens, and never trade real security for feel-good politics.

For more on Australia’s machete problem, watch Matt Walsh’s segment here.