Hi Elias. Just seen your post. It's really late here so I'll make it quick and tell you what little I do know. I will admit that I've been avoiding the news because it is so depressing. Not so much depressing because so many people were killed and injured, but depressing because the same old clichés seem to have been repeated ad nauseum, clichés that seem to come out after every other terrorist attack that has occurred throughout the world for the past few years.
I have seen very little "hard facts" reported, just a lot of emotional outpouring about "we must fight hate at all costs ("costs" read travel restrictions, "lockdowns" - a term that up until very recently was only every used to refer to prison riots - and travel restrictions) and embrace diversity" (though no one who has said this has explained how "embracing diversity" will prevent people from getting killed).
And of course the inevitable GUN CONTROL threat from every media outlet you look at. It took about two hours for politicians to start screeching about gun control, "wringing their hands and tearing their hair". It seems from the manifesto of "the shooter" (as far as I know there is only one "shooter" in custody though obviously there were several) he wanted to "sow division in society" and cause gun control in (not only) NZ (I get the impression that NZ is only "collateral damage" and what ever happens here is of little consequence) and to get rid of the 2nd amendment in the United States (why someone would stage a shooting here to affect the US, I just can't figure out, but that's what the manifesto said). Of course NZ politicians and the media world wide seem to have fallen for it "hook, line and sinker" and totally Acquiesced to his goals, (not the anti-2A though of course, but a lot of "media personalities" would do that if they could and have been screeching about it ever since Friday).
My son lives in Christchurch, about 300 yards from the scene of the shooting in Linwood and had been working that day and was cycling back home just after the incident and wondered what all the fuss was about. He texted me when he found out. Our youngest grandson was all worried that "daddy might have got shot", but he seems ok now.
One thing that is interesting to remember though is that the writer of this "manifesto" claims to be an "eco-fascist" and does not appear to be "right wing" although the media has described him as "far right". However, there was a "protest" by school children nearby at the time about global warming, and as the shooting certainly "took the wind out of their sails", that would tend to indicate that he doesn't really care much for "greenism".
I could - should probably - find out more about it and find out how badly things really are gonna change. I went through "fighting the mandatory gun control threat from the NZ government" that I have found "raises its ugly head" every so often, before in the late 1990s. At the time, we lived in Wellington and I worked in a computer shop where our customer base was about 80% into firearms, libertarianism, human rights and some of our customers were very clued up and knew the laws about everything. I spent all my time gathering information, writing letters and talking to politicians. Finally it was all dropped, the stated reason being "NZ can't afford financially to go down that road". This time, apparently, "we have better communications, computer databases etc. And computers make things so much easier". I was looking at the part of the old files I still have from that time and they may as well have been all written in the 1800s as technology has moved on so much since.
It's times like these when I absolutely despair that we don't even have a constitution, it's really depressing.
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