I want to know what type of weapons this guy used, how he got them, and then how he got them into NZ.
He’s Australian, and their strict gun control policies come up for discussion every time there’s a mass shooting anywhere else in the world. Are New Zealand’s policies that much different, less strict, more strict, what? Did he buy them in NZ, or did he buy them in Australia and then smuggle them in somehow?
New Zealand gun control laws are almost as lax as those in the States. He definitely didnt buy them in Oz and import them, he most likely bought them in NZ…
Thank you. I’m not personally affected but I think most kiwis will be feeling that things will never be quite the same.
Ok, reading, reading. Pretty much Steve King stuff. Then this:
To take revenge for Ebba Akerlund.
??? I remember this incident as my wife and I had just been in Stockholm walking on the same street a couple days earlier. She was killed by a deranged Uzbek named Rakhmat Akilov who stole a beer truck and drove it down the Drottninggatan walking street. His issues had more to do with mental health and issues of the former-Soviet state than Islam. Something like 140 assault and batteries in under 2 minutes as he drove the truck through the crowded street. The four dead, including Ebba, were random. It’s almost aspirational for wannabe terrorists.
Gee, its been over four decades since Gaddafi made his stupid prediction. Now he’s dead and Europe is still decidedly not an Muslim continent. Though there are indeed many Muslim in Europe as there are in the U.S., but in most instances they have peaceful lives and get along quite well with most other in Europe and North America.
Ms.Owens, I suggest that you may be the one overreaching here.
Pizzaro’s treatment of Atahualpa and the Incas was hardly tame. It may have been the largest ransom in human history and Pizzaro still reneged on his end of the bargain.
Seems logical and reasonable.
I saw a short part of the live stream when he was inside the mosque. It was brutal and he was definitely firing a fully automatic assault rifle.
True. But there is no shortage of Incas descendants today. Australian aborigines were nearly wiped out, and several distinct ethnic groups became extinct.
Hey, tech types … can the so-called “dark web” be hacked, disrupted, torn apart, whatever? I’m thinking of the 4chan or 8chan spaces. Why can’t they be taken down by people with expertise?
LOL The OCs…Original Colonists…complaining about demographic shifts as if people are invading and stealing the land they invaded and stole. My fucking head hurts.
Aboriginal culture extends back at least 60,000 years. You can see Ubirr rock drawings that are part of a constant tradition dating back 30,000 years. When Europeans arrived they were greeted by a diverse range of cultures speaking at least 800 languages. What did they do? The Europeans declared Australia a terra nullius, i.e. uninhabited land. This was even worse than slavery from the legal standpoint. As the White Australians evolved on the issue they came up with concepts like in the US about blood such as quadroon and octoroon that might actually allow Aboriginal children be absorbed into the dominant culture. With aboriginal culture largely destroyed, prime ministers can now express their heartfelt apologies for the intrusion.
I’m reminded of what Francis M. Wilhoit, the Drake University political scientist and longtime opponent of racism once wrote,
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
But take heart, the initial statement of your PM, Jacinda Ardern, put our chief executive’s to shame.
We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities, 160 languages. And amongst that diversity we share common values. And the one that we place the currency on right now – and tonight – is our compassion and support for the community of those directly affected by this tragedy.
And secondly, the strongest possible condemnation of the ideology of the people who did this. You may have chosen us – but we utterly reject and condemn you.
Mr trump (I’m looking at you), your lack of empathy for the dead and injured and lack of condemnation of the actions of this murderer in New Zealand make you implicitly a supporter of this tragedy and that ought to matter to you. But it doesn’t does it? Because you believe in and support what he did …don’t ya?
The Republican Death Cult has now officially gone multi national. They excuse the killings by playing the victim. Almost every troll and foxnews watcher has some version of excusing the ideology by acting like the guy was not a follower of right wing mass murder.
We must start acknowledging that there is a classic death cult, its leader is in the White House, the Senate is full of syncophants due to Reagans eleventh commandment, and we are losing.
We are losing, they are winning. Nancy Pelosi is wrong, we must impeach Trump before there is an American Genocide.
Steve King immediately came to mind.
Ah, I just assumed they’d be similar to their close neighbor’s.
Actually, Australia’s strict laws came about after a mass shooting in Tasmania (actually I think there were a couple of incidents, but that’s the one that had everyone saying “Hey, what is this? We’re not America, we can do better!”) Perhaps this will be New Zealand’s moment of clarity…