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New Zealand gun owners begin voluntarily surrendering their weapons to authorities
News week ^ | 3/19/2019 | News week

Posted on 03/19/2019 12:19:32 PM PDT by mikelets456

Many New Zealand gun owners have voluntarily surrendered their semi-automatic rifles to police following Friday's terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, Newsweek reported.

Some have taken to social media to encourage others to follow their move.

"Until today, I was one of the New Zealanders who owned a semi-automatic rifle," farmer John Hart tweeted. "On the farm they are a useful tool in some circumstances, but my convenience doesn't outweigh the risk of misuse.

"We don't need these in our country. We have [to] make sure it's #NeverAgain."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; newzealand; turninguns
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To: P-Marlowe

And all their diesel fuel?


21 posted on 03/19/2019 12:29:51 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: mikelets456

Sounds like the government bought off enough turn coats to parade around as heroes trying to get real gun owners to give up their weapons.


22 posted on 03/19/2019 12:30:37 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: mikelets456
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

― Samuel Adams

23 posted on 03/19/2019 12:31:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: mikelets456

Given all the NZ government censorship that followed “the event” and the slow security services response time during “the event”—it is the NZ government which has to be the prime suspect as an accessory to the murders.

They must have an agenda....hmmm....wonder if we can figure out what it might be.... :-(

Anyone stupid enough to believe their government’s narrative is probably a danger to themselves and others.


24 posted on 03/19/2019 12:32:01 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: mikelets456

A nation of pussies.


25 posted on 03/19/2019 12:32:38 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: mikelets456

Submit to tyranny...for something you all didn’t even do. Easy marks...


26 posted on 03/19/2019 12:33:01 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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This is THE reason I chose to watch the video the killer made. It absolutely confirmed for me what I thought. That so many of these people died because they had ZERO means of self defense. It literally was like watching fish being shot in a barrel, like an elephant stepping on ants. People completely and utterly helpless in that situation and they weren’t cowards. One guy tried tackling him but made the mistake of trying to while the killer was shooting and not reloading. But wow, obvious as hell anyone with a gun would have ended it immediately. You could tell he was paranoid about someone being armed because he kept turning around. And here they are surrendering their firearms. They just do - not - get it. Do they honestly think a crazy person is going to surrender their arms? Hell no! They are making themselves open targets


27 posted on 03/19/2019 12:33:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: mikelets456

It’s all good. Government will take care of you.


28 posted on 03/19/2019 12:34:43 PM PDT by lurk
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To: mikelets456

Many New Zealand gun owners have voluntarily surrendered their semi-automatic rifles to police following Friday’s terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, Newsweek reported.

____________________________________

“Excuse me, does this cattle car take me to Bergen-Belsen? It does? Good. Lets Go!”


29 posted on 03/19/2019 12:35:09 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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VIRTUE SIGNALLING


30 posted on 03/19/2019 12:35:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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31 posted on 03/19/2019 12:35:28 PM PDT by montag813 ("This is Montag, Block 813...")
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To: mikelets456; All

32 posted on 03/19/2019 12:36:21 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: mikelets456

what obvious propagandistic bullsheit!
the media aren’t even subtle about it anymore


33 posted on 03/19/2019 12:39:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: mikelets456

Their ANZAC grandparents are spinning in their graves.


34 posted on 03/19/2019 12:40:47 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: laplata

In NZ, Aus, GB, Connecticut this kind of news is not phony, it is very true. True in far more parts of the world than not.


35 posted on 03/19/2019 12:41:27 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: reed13k

Several times a century, it seems.


36 posted on 03/19/2019 12:42:46 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Kennedy was killed with a single shot bolt action rifle.


It was a bolt action, but it did have a magazine. Oswald got off three (or four) shots with it. (Don’t want to start a discussion about whether or not Oswald was the shooter or a patsy).


37 posted on 03/19/2019 12:43:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: mikelets456

It’s a Newsweek article.

Probably bs.

5.56mm


38 posted on 03/19/2019 12:44:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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39 posted on 03/19/2019 12:45:55 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: mikelets456

Like sheep to the slaughter.


40 posted on 03/19/2019 12:47:33 PM PDT by myerson
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