WOW, this didn't take long for the Prime Minister to announce tighter gun control laws are coming.....
I am surprised that they haven't blamed American WHITE MALES with Assault Weapons or High Capacity
magazines, or Universal Background Checks on the shootings??

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...ntrol-jacinda-ardern
New Zealand’s gun control laws will be strengthened following the massacre of 49 people in Christchurch mosques, the country’s prime minister has said.

Jacinda Ardern said at a press conference early on Saturday that she would consider banning semi-automatic firearms altogether after the alleged gunman behind the shootings obtained five guns legally.

“I can tell you one thing right now: our gun laws will change,” said Ardern. “There have been attempts to change our laws in 2005, 2012 and after an inquiry in 2017. Now is the time for change.”
Ardern said the alleged shooter was found to have used five guns that he appeared to legally own under a “category A” licence obtained in November 2017. He appeared to have begun buying guns the following month, she said.

The guns taken from the alleged perpetrator included two semi-automatic guns and two shotguns, the prime minister said. Answering questions from reporters, Ardern said all options to restrict gun violence would be considered.

New Zealand allows ownership of semi-automatic guns frequently described as “assault rifles” that are banned in countries such as Australia and the UK. Guns can be bought online and anyone aged 16 with an entry-level licence can possess them.

The prime minister said early on Saturday that she had received “messages of condolence from around the world” and international leaders including Donald Trump, the US president, who has been criticized for his hostility towards Muslims.
“He very much wished for his condolences to be passed on to New Zealand,” said Ardern. “He asked what support the US could provide. My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.”

Asked how Trump responded, Ardern said: “He acknowledged that and agreed.”

Four people were arrested following the attack and one was subsequently released. Arden said that person was an armed member of the public who was trying to help police at the scene.

An Australian man in his 20s has been charged with murder and is due to appear in court on Saturday. Arden followed law enforcement in not naming him or two other suspects who were being questioned.

Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian man, identified himself online as being behind the attack.

Ardern described the main suspect as having visited New Zealand “sporadically” during international travels. “They were not a resident of Christchurch,” she said.

Investigators were said to be trying to establish whether or not the other two people arrested were involved in the attacks.

Ardern said that while New Zealand’s intelligence agencies had recently increased their monitoring of far-right extremists, the alleged gunman had not come to the attention of law enforcement and had no criminal record.

The prime minister said she had asked authorities to review the main suspect’s social media output and other evidence for any material “that should have triggered a response” from police.

A total of 41 people were killed at a mosque on Deans Avenue, Ardern said, and seven were killed at a mosque on Lynwood Avenue. One person died later in hospital.

More than 40 people injured in the shootings are being treated in hospitals, Ardern said, and two of them remain in a critical condition. One of those injured is a five-year-old girl.

Here we go again......

This will be a short thread, I see.

And this exactly what this psychopath wanted.

And in the US the media is falling right into his planned narrative.

Suspected New Zealand mosque shooter hoped to spark civil war in US

By Yaron Steinbuch March 15, 2019 | 9:04am | Updated


The 28-year-old white supremacist who livestreamed himself slaughtering Muslims inside a New Zealand mosque said he hoped the massacre, among other things, would spark a civil war in the United States.

In a twisted, 74-page manifesto, Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant describes his anti-immigrant motives for unleashing the rampage at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch , saying the victims were a “large group of invaders” who “seek to occupy my peoples lands and ethnically replace my own people [sic].”

He calls himself “just a regular White man, from a regular family. Who decided to take a stand to ensure a future for my people,” adding that he is “a private and mostly introverted person.”

“I had little interest in education during my schooling, barely achieving a passing grade. I did not attend University as I had no great interest in anything offered in the Universities to study,” he writes, adding that he has been working as a “kebab removalist.”

He also admits he is racist and is an “Eco-fascist by nature.”

Tarrant poses the question of why he carried out the attack, then lists more than a dozen reasons.

“To most of all show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people,” he says.

“To take revenge on the invaders for the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by foreign invaders in European lands throughout history,” he continues.

“To take revenge for the enslavement of millions of Europeans taken from their lands by the Islamic slavers,” he says. “To take revenge for the thousands of European lives lost to terror attacks throughout European lands.”

He says he also wanted “to create conflict between the two ideologies within the United States on the ownership of firearms in order to further the social, cultural, political and racial divide within the United states.

“This conflict over the 2nd amendment and the attempted removal of firearms rights will ultimately result in a civil war that will eventually balkanize the US along political, cultural and, most importantly, racial lines.”

Tarrant also says he wanted to take revenge for Ebba Akerlund, an 11-year-old girl killed in a 2017 terror attack in Stockholm.

He describes that attack as the “first event” that inspired him to commit the heinous crime in Christchurch.

“Young, innocent and dead Ebba. Ebba was walking to meet her mother after school, when she was murdered by an Islamic attacker, driving a stolen vehicle through the shopping promenade on which she was walking. Ebba was partially deaf, unable to hear the attacker coming,” he writes.

An image taken from the alleged shooter Brenton Tarrant's video shows him as he drives and he looks over to three guns on the passenger side of his vehicle in New Zealand.

“Ebba death at the hands of the invaders, the indignity of her violent demise and my inability to stop it broke through my own jaded cynicism like a sledgehammer.

“I could no longer ignore the attacks. They were attacks on my people, attacks on my culture, attacks on my faith and attacks on my soul. They would not be ignored.”

He says a trip he took to France in 2017 inspired the attack.

“For many years I had been hearing and reading of the invasion of France by non-whites, many of these rumors and stories I believed to be exaggerations, created to push a political narrative.

“But once I arrived in France, I found the stories not only be true, but profoundly understated. In every French city, in every French town the invaders were there.”

Citing the 2017 French general election, he adds:

“The candidates were an obvious sign of our times: a globalist, capitalist, egalitarian, an ex-investment banker was no national beliefs other than the pursuit of profit versus a milquetoast, feckless, civic nationalist, an uncontroversial figure who’s most brave and inspired idea resolved to the possible deportation of illegal immigrants.”

Tarrant notes that he does not belong to any organizations or groups — but that he has “donated” to many nationalist groups “and interacted with many more.”

He also says he was not seeking fame.

“Carrying out an attack for fame would be laughable. After all who can remember the name of the attackers in the September 11 attack in New York?” he writes.

“How about the attack on the pentagon? The attackers in the plane that crashed into the field on the same day? I will be forgotten quickly. Which I do not mind.

New Zealand mosque attacks: The tragedy in pictures
He says he targeted the Muslim worshipers because “they were an obvious, visible and large group of invaders, from a culture with higher fertility rates, higher social trust and strong, robust traditions that seek to occupy my peoples lands and ethnically replace my own people.”

Tarrant also reveals that New Zealand was not his original choice for an attack, saying he only traveled to the country to plan and train for an attack.

“I begun planning an attack roughly two years in advance and an attack at the location in Christchurch three months in advance,” he said.

He notes he had the “will” and “resources” to use a variety of weapons to commit the heinous act, including an explosives-laden van and a plane — but that he chose guns “for the affect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage they would provide and the affect it could have on the politics of United states and thereby the political situation of the world.”

He adds: “The US is torn into many factions by its second amendment, along state, social, cultural and, most importantly, racial lines.

“With enough pressure the left wing within the United states will seek to abolish the second amendment, and the right wing within the US will see this as an attack on their very freedom and liberty.

“This attempted abolishment of rights by the left will result in a dramatic polarization of the people in the United States and eventually a fracturing of the US along cultural and racial lines.”

He also poses the question of whether he supports President Trump.

“As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no,” he answers.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/15/...park-civil-war-in-us

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“I can tell you one thing right now: our gun laws will change,” said Ardern.

I'm certainly no expert on New Zealand, but I don't think they're ruled by a monarch that dictates law. Everything's running really hot right now, but in a month or two, when they finally get around to trying to change guns laws, the appetite for such changes may be very different.

I thought a fair amount of New Zealanders owned firearms and there were only 8 murders last year, or a normal weekend in Chicago. NZ has proven that guy ownership doesn’t lead to murders. They have embraced and fostered a culture of not killing people. Kind of like me.