The media won’t publicise this petition, that’s for sure. More gun control – by whatever means possible and facts be damned – is just fine by the socialists who are exploiting mass hysteria.
Update:
This morning’s NZ Herald headline surely has to mark a shameful turning point for Kiwis’ illusions about freedom.
His final remarks raise an intriguing possibility…..
As well as plenty of their own.
‘Experts tracking the rise of far-right terrorism say extremism has been growing in New Zealand and the warning signs of an attack have been apparent.
“For a long time [New Zealand] has assumed that this extremism is not here, but it is,” said Massey University Centre for Defence and Security Studies counter-terrorism expert Dr John Battersby.
Distance was no protection from from the rise of global extremism, with the flourishing of the right in Europe, and US President Donald Trump and the alt-right in America emboldening potential terrorists, he said.
New Zealand’s relaxed attitude towards gun ownership was also a major issue, with the gunman at Christchurch’s Deans Ave mosque carrying a horrific number of weapons, Battersby said.’
Battersby used to be (perhaps still is for all I know) Sergeant Battersby of the NZ police And the NZ Police Association is strongly in favour of ever more gun control, to the point where the union has even advocated taking guns out of the hands of “civilians”. (Last time I looked, police were civilians too)
Massey University is home to perhaps the greatest concentration of leftist academics and activists you’ll find anywhere, so of course they’e the go-to source for the socialist media which happily repeats their distorted and sometime flat-out lying views.
Oh, and while we’re at it, NZ does not have a “relaxed attitude” to gun ownership, far from it. The screening and qualification process to obtain a licence is obviously very effective, since less than 1% of firearms crimes are committed by licensed owners. That figure might have been “adjusted” by the anti-gun zealots recently, of course.
See: ‘Dishonest Academia’
You’re being played for the fools you are by the warmist tax-grabbers. Get a grown-up to explain the big words in this article if it’s all too hard for your brainwashed little minds:
Sun’s Impact on Climate ‘Greater than Thought’ Shock
just one comment under the article kinda sums things up:
“During Earths history….. the average atmospheric CO2 was roughly 25 times more than it is now…. LIFE Exploded and Thrived! We could likely benefit from much more CO2…. Not Less.
AND…. it takes a VERY Special Intellect to believe that Big Yellow thing in the Sky has no effect on the Temperature and Climate!”
Exactly.
‘New rules mean every NZ rental home must have a heater’
How many more billions are they “entitled” to?
Ecofascists trashing the people’s right to free speech, while peddling U.N. lies and bullshit about climate change as “news”
This appears under an article titled ‘Time for a petrol car ban?
The Government needs to get creative if it wants to make a big difference to EV uptake. ‘
That’s what you get when your apathy allows an illegitimate greens-driven mob posing as the “government” to grab power, Kiwis.
(thanks to Darin for the space to post this)