surely comes into question now that we know that the gunman was in possession of 2 semi automatic rfles amongst other weapons. Could it be that it was easier for him to lay his hands on the weapons in New Zealand rather than Australia and that is why he committed the act in New Zealand?
Illegal arms will always be available ... in every society.
It's not the guns that are the problem ... it's the mad men who use them ...
In this mad world of ours, where Muslims and other mad men murder the innocent, stricter regulation should be implemented.
Any country who thinks it's not a target of the Muslim and other mad men need their heads read.
This is the world we live in today.
Denny you're spot on ...... it took Australia 12 days after the Port Arthur massacre to outlaw those weapons.
I know....tx Blobbie.
Hell, you'd have to be dumb not to notice that the weapon of choice for mass murderers are semi automatic weapons. It's that simple. Don't allow them legal access to it, again, that's how simple it is.
There ought to be a difference between buying cornflakes online and buying semi automatic weapons online.
My advice would be to ban the sale of semi automatic weapons to the general public.
Blob bok
The not so funny thing is that we've all had a hearty debate about the same thing when the USA suffered a spate of mass murders. NZ obviously thought itself immune to what's happening in the rest of the world....how sad.
My stance on semi automatic weapons are exctly the same now as it was then.
Howard's gun laws is a lesson to be learnt by the rest of the world.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/new-zealand-firearm-licence-applications-had-a-996-percent-pass-rate-in-2016/ar-BBUTA2J?ocid=spartanntp
The protection of the population can't be left in the hands of the government, if that was the case in SA even more innocent people will be killed. If our farmers didn't have guns as a deterrent, they all would probably have been killed already.
This is a lawless country, but I suppose NZ is a safe enough place to completely ban guns.
48 people were murdered in NZ in 2017 ....... sadly probably a similar tally for a week in Cape Town.
What weapons are favoured by the criminals in SA? AK47 and R1's automatic army machine guns. Where do they get that from? Obviously from the Police
Australia's gun laws are working well.
Vlag, in nutshell, what are you trying to prove?
...and then just pray your military never turns on you.
Better late than never...