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New Zealand's new gun law a prompt response to massacre — but it's a nonsolution
Chicago Tribune ^ | 23 mar 2019 | Steve Chapman

Posted on 03/24/2019 7:55:58 AM PDT by rellimpank

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---I usually "barf alert" anything by Chapman but he makes sense every now and then--
1 posted on 03/24/2019 7:55:58 AM PDT by rellimpank
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“This is what leadership looks like,” marveled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

No, this is what tyranny looks like.

You should go ahead and try, you stupid tw*t.

* = i.

No, I mean seriously, what else could the * be beside an i?


2 posted on 03/24/2019 7:58:06 AM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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Hey gun confiscators,....BRING IT!!


3 posted on 03/24/2019 7:59:47 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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BKMK


4 posted on 03/24/2019 8:00:35 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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He makes sense? The guy is arguing that the New Zealand confiscation didn’t go far enough!


5 posted on 03/24/2019 8:01:26 AM PDT by KyCats
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Pray that New Zealand is not lost.

Its greatest generation faced the impending Japanese attack on the beaches of New Zealand armed with axes and crowbars when they could find no better weapon.

Today its most shameful generation is confused and suicidal.

What a difference between the heroic, valiant, ascendant New Zealander of the 1940s and the ignominious, confused decadents of 2019! Pray that the decadents are only a small percentage of the population of New Zealand and that heroism, moral clarity, and ascendancy still prevail!

The following, recorded by James Michener, quotes a man from New Zealand, speaking to American and New Zealander troops stationed on the islands north of New Zealand, as the forces of the Japanese Empire closed in on New Zealand in the early stages of World War II:

"A frightful Japanese broadcast has steeled us for the worst. It came though two nights before I left. A Japanese professor was describing New Zealand and how it would be developed by the Japanese.”

“Maoris, as true members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, will be allowed special priveleges. White men will be used on the farms. He said that the lush fields, the wealth, the cities were in their grasp at last. The day of reckoning with insolent New Zealanders was at hand. Immortal Japanese troops would know what to do."

"The old men--well, your wife's father and mine, for example. They are stationed at the beaches. They know they dare not retreat. They have taken their positions now."

"The home guard is next. They have been digging in furiously. They occupy prepared positions near the cities and the best beaches. The regular army will be thrown in as the fighting develops. Everyone has decided to fight until the end. The cities and villages will be destroyed."

"Many families have gone to the hills. Cars are waiting to take the others at the first sign of the Jap fleet. My wife and the kiddies have gone. Your wife...said to tell you that she will stay until the last."

"It was my humble duty to assist in preparing the defenses of Auckland. I issued several thousand picks, crowbars, and axes. There were no other weapons."

Tales of the South Pacific. New York: Fawcett, 1946, pp. 17-18.

PRAY FOR NEW ZEALAND!

6 posted on 03/24/2019 8:01:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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If they’re looking to make themselves a target rich environment they’ve just done so.


7 posted on 03/24/2019 8:03:58 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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The new mentality demands the government protect the public from every harm, so when it’s not possible, they undertake “feel good “ measures that make the grossly uninformed feel better.


8 posted on 03/24/2019 8:04:00 AM PDT by Spok
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Apparently, the whole British Commonwealth has lost its collective mind. Good thing our ancestors got out early.


9 posted on 03/24/2019 8:04:20 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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Only 17% of the colonials fight in the revolution. In today’s world, that’s 61,200,000. Imagine that many semi-autos of varying caliber behind every
Tree.


10 posted on 03/24/2019 8:05:25 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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NZ: import the Moslems and try to disarm your citizens? What could possibly go wrong?


11 posted on 03/24/2019 8:05:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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New Zealand's new gun law a prompt response knee-jerk, spasmodic overreaction to massacre — but it's a nonsolution doomed to be ineffective.
12 posted on 03/24/2019 8:05:58 AM PDT by IronJack
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All those politicians praising New Zealand’s quick response to the Muzzie Massacre seem to forget about that little thing called “The 2nd Amendment”.


13 posted on 03/24/2019 8:08:20 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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Did the shooter legally buy those weapons in New Zealand? I doubt an Australian national could walk into any gun store in the US and buy an arsenal like this.


14 posted on 03/24/2019 8:13:02 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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Does anyone remember when Hillary was making noises about wanting to move to NZ? It seems as though she and Skippy want it as their last stronghold for themselves.


15 posted on 03/24/2019 8:13:41 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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16 posted on 03/24/2019 8:15:12 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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Thanks, NZ, for making your country a no-fly zone for me. The mass murderer was stupid, but you doubled down on it.


17 posted on 03/24/2019 8:15:14 AM PDT by windsorknot
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By this act they have thoroughly besmirched ANZAC day and all it stands for.


18 posted on 03/24/2019 8:16:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Killers could also resort to different weapons and ammunition. A shotgun capable of holding five rounds could be loaded with buckshot shells, packed with the equivalent of nine .33-caliber pellets apiece — 45 deadly projectiles. Had the Christchurch shooter chosen this option, he might have killed even more people in even less time.”

They could have easily used single shot over under shotguns or bolt action rifles and still killed people. A tragedy such as this did not happen just because that these people used guns (or a certain type of one) to kill others, the tragedy happened because the perps committed one and they could have used all sorts of weapons or other things. And what happened in Oklahoma City needed only fertilizers and a rental van to be carried out.


19 posted on 03/24/2019 8:16:24 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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All that’s necessary with any new gun-control law is that it keeps the socialists in power.


20 posted on 03/24/2019 8:18:31 AM PDT by Amendment10
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