New Zealand Prime Minister says, 'Our gun laws will change'
"There were five guns used by the primary perpetrator," she said at a news conference in Wellington. "There were two semi-automatic weapons and two shotguns. The offender was in possession of a gun license. I'm advised this was acquired in November of 2017. A lever-action firearm was also found."
She said the suspect, identified as Brenton Tarrant, obtained a gun license in November 2017 and began purchasing guns legally in December 2017.
"While work is being done as to the chain of events that lead to both the holding of this gun license and the possession of these weapons, I can tell you one thing right now. Our gun laws will change." Ardern said.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/15/asia/new-zealand-gun-control-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
Naturally....
Let me preface these remarks by saying in no way do I endorse, support, approve, or embrace the tactic of shooting people merely for being present in their house of worship, which appears to be the primary criterion used by the shooter. Murder is murder. I'm saying this here, simply because I said it at the end of these comments, but not everyone will read that far, and some might mistake some comment as approval of him or his actions. I do not approve.
Some thoughts....(Yes, I have been reading his crap "manifesto", partly because I don't trust the Media to do anything but cherry pick it for parts that suit the narrative they want to present, and partly to see what made this jerk tick.)
Won’t your attack result in calls for the removal of gun rights from Whites in the United states?
Yes, that is the plan all along, you said you would fight to protect your rights and the constitution, well soon will come the time.
Now who does that crap serve? Trying to start a war, any war in the US, and bringing up "Whites" is Turner Diaries stuff. While I admit, I'm not happy with the naked radicalism and hate by Islamic groups here, especially voiced of late, but starting a war in the US over our RKBA (something all Americans have, not just "Whites") isn't something we need right now, and will only work against us all.
This nutcase cannot be allowed to affect American politics, nor our Rights.
Won’t your attack result in calls for the removal of gun rights in the New Zealand?
The gun owners of New Zealand are a beaten, miserable bunch of baby boomers, who have long since given up the fight. When was the last time they won increased rights? Their loss was inevitable. I just accelerated things a bit. They had long since lost their cities, take a look at Auckland. Did you really expect they would not also lose their rights?
Stated goal. By changing gun laws in any way to restrict the rights of New Zealanders to own firearms, the PM plays right into his "manifesto". Hopefully, she will reconsider.
If there is any doubt that this guy is unhinged (not just through his actions, consider the following, also lifted from his "manifesto":
You are a bigot, racist, xenophobe, islamophobe, nazi, fascist!
A. Compliments will get you nowhere.
B. That isn’t a question.
C. What the f**k did you just f**king say about me, you little b*tch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla [sic] warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the bleep out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my f**king words. You think you can get away with saying that sh*t to me over the Internet? Think again, f**ker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're f**king dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little sh*t. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your f**king tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you damn idiot. Iwill sh*t fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're f**king dead, kiddo.
(swearwords edited by me)
Now aside from the apparent Role Playing Gamer sort of response, I must note that this "manifesto" is sort of a self-interview, at least up to that point. But answer "C" refers to the US, to the SEALs, to the USMC, and reads like a bad imitation of one of my favorite actors doing a Marine D.I.
Just who is he responding to if he is the one asking the questions?
The dude is delusional, and unfortunately acted on it. While there are a host of other things which identify this guy as bloody insane, the possibly valid concerns he brought up will be lost in or identified with ravings just like this one, and by association, ANY valid concern or complaint he had will be considered part of the deranged ravings. Stuff like that just leaves more meat for the MSM and global outlets to decry valid concerns present by associating them with ravings.
As a result, concerns about cultural replacement, birth rates, immigration, and lack of assimilation will be lost in or considered part of this nutcase's general mindset, and a thing to be avoided (like the plague). In turn, those expressing such concerns can now be hunted, searched out, and scrutinized far beyond what normal discourse would merit, by authorities who can voice specific concerns for the safety of the general (and specific parts of the) population, and used to demonize any who might have concerns about valid issues.
New internet flags will be tripped over the mention of such issues, claiming that because this event happened, anyone who is concerned about these issues should be watched, 'red flagged' as potential terrorists, or what have you.
If he is in any way sincere about those concerns, he has done far more harm than good, and murder, especially the murder of innocents is unconscionable, whoever they are.
Bottom line is that this whacko knew that his acts would have impact everywhere, and like Manson or other extreme racists of any stripe, he is trying to start a race war, foment crisis and insurrection, or provide the excuses governments need to become more totalitarian, eliciting (sooner or later) a response.
Why focus on immigration and birth rates when climate change is such a huge issue?
Because they are the same issue, the environment is being destroyed by over population, we Europeans are one of the groups that are not overpopulating the world. The invaders are the ones overpopulating the world. Kill the invaders, kill the overpopulation and by doing so save the environment.
Now, that whole bit is so messed up on so many levels... but here goes.
First, I'd like to note that before the European expansion during the 1400s and beyond, the Europeans were the invaders. Since then the same folks have been pretty much in control of who came and went. Still are.
Second, if the "invaders" are overpopulating the world, shooting up 50-100 people in an area where cultural bias is in the opposite direction really isn't the way to address this concern. The real "overpopulating" is going on elsewhere, feeding the refugee swarms that are going forth to the very areas he expresses greatest concern over.
So why not go to one of those places and shoot up the joint, instead?
As far as the environment goes, the 'big green mantra' is that the destruction isn't so much being done through overpopulation, but by technology, as the most industrialized first world economies are the consistent target of environmentalists, not those who live in relatively primitive squalor outside of that European/American sphere of cultural influence. If overpopulation is the problem, is New Zealand the place this alleged traveler should address it? Obviously, this excuse is crap.
Unfortunately, because this guy is all over the map, some valid points are made in the document, points which are likely to be lost in the controversy surrounding it, and which will be soiled with the taint associated with this murder and mayhem, and which may be discarded by those who should listen most because of that affiliation. Certainly, those same points will be decried by association with the shooter when raised by others, in the MSM. There is a fast-track demonization for any source which agrees with even the smallest fraction of what the shooter posted.
In that, the shooter, in even his most lucid moments has done great disservice to any cause he may have embraced (something which seems to go in multiple directions at once). This also reaches to these shores and pertinent issues here:
Soon the replacement of the whites within Texas will hit its apogee and with the non-white political and social control of Texas; and with this control, the electoral college will be heavily stacked in favor of a democratic victory so that every electoral cycle will be a certainty.]
This is a concern expressed, even here, although not on racial lines, but on Citizenship lines, (Illegals vs citizens) and the influx of Leftists from elsewhere. Odd that he should consistently make reference to the US and our politics, but in fairness, when I say 'He's all over the map', his references include Europe, the Middle East (well, Asia Minor), Africa, the South Pacific (Australia/New Zealand) and Asia as well.
These tidbits are being provided for discussion, and do not constitute an agreement with his statements in general, nor any form of approval of his methods.
It would have been far preferable if he had simply posted his ideas on the internet, on a blog site and left them open to lucid comment and analysis without the blood of innocents spattered all over those concepts.
Unfortunately, the author of the 'manifesto' in cult-like fashion, apparently only saw a violent and apocalyptic means to the end of addressing problems he identified, one which I must decry for the slaughter of people who had not, in the Western tradition, been convicted of any wrongdoing.
Murder is murder, and in so doing, the man increases the distance between the present and any solutions to whatever real problems he mentioned that exist.
