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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: mbarker12474
Duh. It's Newsweak.

Most certainly is fake news.

61 posted on 03/19/2019 1:21:23 PM PDT by HotHunt (Climate change is not an "inconvenient truth" but many convenient lies.)
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To: Revel

I agree. There are plenty of bugout homes there. I think Rush Limbaugh has a place there.


62 posted on 03/19/2019 1:28:05 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You wrote the same thoughts I had when watching the video. Here is my reaction:

“From the video, he was at the mosque for a long time. I wonder why no one got on a cell phone and notified the police. I also showed him shooting people from inside the car (with no front windshield) with what appeared to be a shot gun. Usually people would be calling police if they heard gun shots or saw him shooting from his car. And, the reality of the entire massacre is there was no good guy with a gun. One shot would have ended it. So much for creating a nation without guns. I would be a furious New Zealander after seeing how pathetic people were defenseless.”


63 posted on 03/19/2019 1:29:08 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: mikelets456

“Many New Zealand gun owners...”

How many is “many”?


64 posted on 03/19/2019 1:36:58 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: mikelets456

Wow. Slaves.


65 posted on 03/19/2019 1:50:17 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: mikelets456

As the world gets crazier by the day.. Common Sense Prevails on Freerepublic.com. Thank you FReepers!! You never fail to restore my faith in human beings!!


66 posted on 03/19/2019 1:54:17 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: mikelets456

New Zealand gun owners begin voluntarily substituting their mouths for the toilet paper of the authorities


67 posted on 03/19/2019 1:59:53 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: mikelets456

Surrendering your weapons to the authorities is like surrendering your weapons to the Jihadis.


68 posted on 03/19/2019 2:03:43 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Gamecock

As they go to the slaughter house. History repeating itself. Just different locations.


69 posted on 03/19/2019 2:06:15 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: cgbg

Agreed


70 posted on 03/19/2019 2:08:31 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: mikelets456

Well, they can add four million human Kiwis to the 90 million or so sheep count in the country. Wonderful place and the only country which I (formerly) could seriously emigrating to. No more.


71 posted on 03/19/2019 2:15:10 PM PDT by katana
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To: mikelets456

Erectile Dysfunction.


72 posted on 03/19/2019 2:28:00 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Jeff Chandler

VIRTUE SIGNALLING


But losing the ability to protect your family intentionally isn’t virtuous, is it? Why not call it vice signalling?


73 posted on 03/19/2019 2:28:12 PM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: mikelets456

I am perfectly fine with the farmer’s choice. Those who lack the confidence to control their firearms and themselves—and aren’t prepared to defend their own lives in an emergency—make poor gun owners. Make great sheep though.


74 posted on 03/19/2019 2:32:56 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Jimmy The Snake

AND NO SHARP EDGES.


75 posted on 03/19/2019 2:38:55 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: jonrick46

Yes! That’s another thing I was wondering, in this day and age of cellphones, where were the cops?? He shoots up the Mosque then casually walks out, no cops anywhere. They he sees that guy running up to the street, shoots him, no cops anywhere. Then he goes speeding through the street driving like a maniac, shooting from the car, then he’s off speeding again, no cops anywhere. But HEY! It’s TRUMPS FAULT!!!

Speaking of which, did you hear the latest? Now Trump is responsible for Mafia hits!.....

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2019/03/18/anthony-comello-maga-francesco-cali-mob-murder/3206597002/


76 posted on 03/19/2019 2:43:35 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 STUPIDITY.


77 posted on 03/19/2019 2:51:06 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I bet the Fake News Netwrecks will saturate the news about Trump’s links to the mob 24-7. Another fallacious association that Americans with common sense know is fake.


78 posted on 03/19/2019 2:52:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: mikelets456

Sheep outnumber people in NZ.


79 posted on 03/19/2019 2:58:00 PM PDT by JPJones
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To: mikelets456
Surrendering your weapons is the way to guarantee that is does happen again.
80 posted on 03/19/2019 3:07:56 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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