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@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
So multiple people shooting, and your first thought is terrorists, although shooting at Mosques puts a slight twist on it...?
Crazy shit.
ChCh has a rep for white extremists, at least when I was growing up, but who knows right now.
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@Sneakdefreak well yeah, and while they fit the bill of 'terrorists' if they are responsible it makes it a bit different to what most expect I guess
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@Sneakdefreak said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
So multiple people shooting, and your first thought is terrorists, although shooting at Mosques puts a slight twist on it...?
Crazy shit.
ChCh has a rep for white extremists, at least when I was growing up, but who knows right now.
This sounds more like a military person(s) as they have fully automatic weapons and flak jackets?
@canefan I didn't even think of it like that, but yes, this sucks for Canterburians!
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news@newshub.co.nz "I could hear a whole bunch of popping, I thought it was fireworks," said Christchurch resident Alex Hill.
"Someone said they counted 29 [shots,]" he told Newshub.
Another man told Magic Talk he saw people running out of the mosque, and that he had seen a man in military gear with a high powered gun.
"I heard what I thought was a real loud backfire of a car," the man told Magic Talk.
"And the next minute I turned to my right and just saw people running out of the mosque, and obviously just a couple of more shots and a lady fell over and then a guy in full military gear with what looked like a really high powered gun pointing down the road firing"
"Full camo gear and he didn't look like he had a care in the world"
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@Sneakdefreak yeah that goes back many years. My cousin got in with a really bad skinhead crew when he lived down that ways Never shook that mindset unfortunately
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@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Tim caarnts! They deserve to be shot themselves, but then that sits on the shoulders of some cop for the rest of his life he killed someone.
I dunno, might feel pretty good to kill this sort of scumbag.
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@Kirwan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Tim caarnts! They deserve to be shot themselves, but then that sits on the shoulders of some cop for the rest of his life he killed someone.
I dunno, might feel pretty good to kill this sort of scumbag.
Let the dogs have a wee nibble first.
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@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Kirwan I'm sure there would be the initial buzz of saving lives, but taking a life would be tough for some to deal with.
I guess if it's a choice to take one of these scumbags out to save lives it might make dealing with it easier. But for a normal person it must be a burden to carry
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They're saying dozens of people have been shot.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111313238/shooting-at-christchurch-mosque
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The implications for civil liberty in NZ are likely to change us markedly. It's a sign of the times anger and rhetoric are channelled by all sorts - media, politicians etc and are picked up by these sorts of scum who exist in an echo chamber remote from reality and work themselves up into a frothing rage.
How anyone could do this to any one individual let alone target a group like this. I feel sick - sick with sympathy for the victims, sick with anger at the perpetrators and sick with fear at the reaction in terms of tightening our freedom of movement.
NZ has been pretty unique in that anyone could walk up to a politician and fracture their eye socket. I think all that is going to change.
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@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Kirwan I'm sure there would be the initial buzz of saving lives, but taking a life would be tough for some to deal with.
I don't know. According to the Norwegian police who captured Anders Bering Breivik, they were seriously pissed off he didn't give them an excuse to blow his head off.
Regardless, this is horrendous. Who would have thought this could happen in NZ?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:
@Kirwan I'm sure there would be the initial buzz of saving lives, but taking a life would be tough for some to deal with.
I don't know. According to the Norwegian police who captured Anders Bering Breivik, they were seriously pissed off he didn't give them an excuse to blow his head off.
Regardless, this is horrendous. Who would have thought this could happen in NZ?
it has though, Aramoana.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel guess you could say it was inevitable that it was going to happen sooner or later?
Although the signs dont look like the source of the attack is as most would have expected it to be?
Christchurch Gunman in Mosque