It turns out that guy didn’t actually shoot back. It seems like the terrorist dropped a gun and went back to his car to get more. Then this man grabbed the dropped gun, chased him outside with it, and then hurled it through his back window. The terrorist thought he was being shot at, and he fled the scene.
If the people of New Zealand move towards banning semi-automatic weapons like they were gonna do back in 2009, before the NSA pushed to have it overturned, then perhaps things like this wouldn’t happen again, at least not with this kind of fatalities.
Australia’s Port Arthur trajedy got the country together. Perhaps New Zealand would do the same.
If the whole point of having these weapons is for hunting, like so many people claim when arguing for a loose gun law, in what situation do you really need these weapons for hunting?
I mean if you miss one shot, the animals would be scurrying away anyway, what’s the point of having 10 or 20 consecutive shots for hunting? They are only needed when fighting off a swarm of giant ants or tarantulas, or kill of bunch of people…
The few hardcore outdoorsmen I know have actually switched to a bow and arrow for hunting. Ups the challenge and interest level for them. So really, a good hunter hardly even needs a gun. Unless you’re shooting something fast and tiny like woodcock, I guess.
Terrible way to get them as rabbits and possums are super fast. They also have super hearing. They also have holes around that they can hide after surviving the first shot. I think it’s extremely expensive and ineffective killing those animals with a gun.
There are good CO2 powered possum traps that costs 200 dollars. There’s really not much you can do about rabbits in New Zealand… That’s why all their new trees have those green skirts around it.
I think people mostly hunt deer with their guns over there. Although they are also incredibly agile and usually really far away for you to take a second shot.
All that’s based on my single trip to New Zealand last year…
Dunno how accurate the Math is but NZ is not even 5 million people, of which Muslims are barely a drop.
They simply could not handle burials for 50 people. Think of this: not enough people to dig 50 graves on time. No one expects to have 50 people gone in an instant. Plane or train crash, quakes or other devastaion may leave you with that awful number of casualties but having to dig 50 graves is still a task against time. Not to mention in thsi case 50 autopsies. 50 body repairs. 50 funerals. In a small town of a bit more of 300k.