I donβt support allowing assault rifles again but just this year we had an attack in Auckland CBD.
A non licensed person with an illegally gained gun. Not an assault rifle but could have beenβ¦
Same as the smoking debate or putting less people in prison, these sort of βstop it and the problem will go awayβ laws donβt get to the root of the problem.
You are talking about a spree murder in Auckland Vs terrorism.
Two different drivers.
Tarrant did not snap one day, which is why he is in Paremoremo Max in permanent Cell confinement and not in Mason clinic.
He is an individual who is not suffering from a mental illness, he is a person who had an obsession with Automatic weapons, White Supremacy, that felt emboldened to cross the line between hating ethnics to fuck it I am going to show I am the REAL white power avenger.
There are no pills for that.
Fifty people died because unlike the Auckland case he had multiple machine guns.
The Auckland case I do not have unique insights into, I did not work that case, even though there is a possible stronger correlation with some mental health potential involvement.
Spree killers (not Tarrant the Terrorist) are often loners, who have been rejected by their peers.
I am wondering how you propose a Govt addresses that issue, or how mental health get involved, since on the face of it, there is no way of knowing out of the hundreds of thousands of loners, which ones are at risk, unless they telegraph it and say something / stock firearms.
I am a survivor of a spree kill style incident. Spree killings go back in NZs history as far as Stan Graham circa 1900, there have been multiple in NZ and I can certainly talk about that and what I saw with my own eyes:
They go back in NZs history as far as Stan Graham circa 1900, there have been multiple in NZ.
A guy I knew gets banned from our local country pub for acting up in there, loses his accommodation, splits up with his Girlfriend, ends up living out of the backseat of his car in a paddock for six months.
Small town, the pub being the only social outlet.
Guy gets kicked out of our Rubgy team for fighting, then turns on the Referee and punches him over, life long ban from Rugby now.
Same guy tells the Pub owner who banned him that he will F ing kill him for that ban from the pub.
This guy is not on any watch list, because apart from a random fight at Rugby that got outta hand, mouthing off about killing the Pub owner he has no serious criminal stuff.
A year later, he has managed to borrow a pump action shotgun = 7 rounds, and a possum riffle from a farming acquaintance to 'do some pest control'.
He saws off the barrel of the 22. then goes to an isolated spot and practices one armed use of the Pump action, the stunt one hand cocking and bracing the but against the hip while holding the 22 off the other hip.
On the night of the spree, he enters the pub, cases the place to check where all the people inside are positioned, we say hello to him, he just nods and walks by.
I won't go into detail from there except to point out, once he kills the person he promised to kill, he goes to leave, someone upset says something, he pauses, is full of the power of those guns and his total power over a group of people, he seems to have that moment where he registers that he has gone too far now, so he shoots the person who spoke out, turns and starts firing at me, I am running, end up trapped in a toilet, get called out, have to walk back out and face his guns, he cocks the Shotty and points it at my face, starts laughing then tells me to do stuff because he can.
Same guy goes to Kingseat Forensic unit as ordered by the Judge to determine what role mental illness played in his actions.
He is found to have a problem with White people in general, and not mentally ill, he is also found to have regrets about not killing us
mΔori's too because 'fuck it'.
Again, we are not going to be able to prevent all of these type offenders acting out.
The only thing we can control is not letting them have the ability to shoot fifty people. Sure we can make a happier more stable New Zealand, we can spread a message to of 'be kind' look after one another.....oh wait....we tried that, the woman who was the boss saying that ended up being the most hated NZ female in the world because she works for Black Rock and runs the UN and the new world order.
Happy days we now have far right Americans running NZ and it is critical therefore we protect the 2nd Amendment rights of all New Zealanders, it is protected under the US constitution, our new founding document.