49 Dead In New Zealand Mass Shooting

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Mark Baker

Some mornings, it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. This morning was one of them.

After all, I get up, fix myself some coffee, and I have a message waiting for me. A friend is telling me I’ll need to get caught up with the news out of New Zealand. After a quick Google search, I find out what he’s talking about.

Holy crap.

We can file this under the heading of “so mass shootings only happen in the U.S., huh?”

A gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, killing 49 people in an afternoon slaughter that in part was broadcast live online after the publication of a white supremacist manifesto.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, said that in addition to those killed, 20 were seriously injured, shaking a country with little history of mass shooting in what she called “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.”

Awful. Absolutely awful.

Currently, four people, including one woman, are in custody and one suspect has been charged.

So what motivated these gunmen? Apparently, they’re counting on the anti-gun left to react to this by trying to push still more gun control …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms