"This isn't kneejerk by any stretch, these measures have been well considered and overdue," Gilbert said.
"Nobody is saying that New Zealanders can't have a firearm ... New Zealand is a country that requires firearms, but no one needs a military-style semi-automatic weapon," he added, citing the example of farmers.
"We allow people to drive cars in New Zealand we don't allow people to drive tanks, that's the equivalence … The time for these measures isn't now, it's actually long passed."
Following Ardern's announcement, Police Commissioner Bush said there would be an "amnesty" to allow people to hand in now illegal weapons to police.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...021013662.html
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
not one to complain about people being obsessed.
I have found obsession a a form of passion.
If anything, the world could use a little more (com)passion
all the same, NZ has a response beyond " thoughts and prayers"
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I agree, but your Dems are just at bad at no compassion as well. I have no fight between your two parties, they both suck equally, no common sense and want to have complete power.
Do you dare go there?
Compassion is, you Dems quit treating blacks that the only jobs they are good at is burger flippers, warehouse workers or janitors, we blacks do have a brain.
Compassion is, you Republicans, blacks are dumb and a vessel for the Dems. They make you money, they work hard for you, do cowtail to the White Supremacist.
The truth is Dems used blacks like the Reps did when they were slaves, but the dynamics are different and back then it goes down from generation to generation just like the Dems know 1965 that generation of blacks will follow without parameters will go down generation to generation until we wake up and give a middle finger to both of your parties.
this is really not the place for this discussion, but let me add to your point (D) Women .
The conversation has centered around Sanders,Biden and O'Roarke.
from where I stand (D) is more a multi racial
I think AOC is a breath of fresh air. She speaks to topics people have shoved under the rug for decades and in some cases centuries. Agree or disagree she has been a catalyst.
To the first point above, I started talking this morning about NZ banning military grade weapons.
Not race or politics of race
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Seriously, age is creeping up on you old man.
She is batschit insane with her ideas.
Warren is a better Dem and not even close. Even Moon Man Bernie is light years ahead of her.
Thank goodness that rookie is too young to be a president, she would be worse than Trump and that is a tall order to overcome for that oaf.
NZ happened just like Finland a while ago.
They are White Supremacist schit stains. They could try it here but I don't think they get far because most brothers will have guns and fight back. That is why they don't do it, unless in a church. Cowards.
We see this in the Middle East on a daily basis. It just happened in a white majority country.
It might happen here, either by Muslims or undocumented Hispanics, but it will come.
Jokes on you they just go into law enforcement. The FBI who wont even call the KKK a hate/racist group reported on white nationalists infiltrating law enforcement. In fact the FBI itself has very few black people working for them unless you count janitors.
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"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
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Verified account @AOC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Retweeted IndyStar
You know, instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith, & concertgoers to prep for being shot, we could just:
-Pass Universal Background checks (#HR8!)
-Disarm domestic abusers
-Mandate safe storage
-Ban bump stocks, semiautos, & high cap mags designed to kill people
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Weep with those that weep.
It must be awesome to live in a country where people act after things like this happen instead of just saying thoughts and prayers
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
why won't trump say "radical right-wing terrorism"?
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
(it should be noted that muslim terrorists are also right-wing extremists. just like the NZ shooter, the MAGA bomber, and the others we have here in america.)
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
Homey, please.An eco fascist is right wing? You lost your mind