GOA’s Michael Hammond Says What We All Know About New Zealand

By Tom Knighton

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New Zealand’s reaction to the mass shooting in Christchurch was swift. Most knee-jerk reactions tend to be.

However, that incident didn’t have to go down that way. Most mass shootings don’t. That’s probably the one thing we and anti-gunners agree on.

The difference is in what we think the answer is. Activist and Gun Owners of America legislative council Michael Hammond called out the actual truth about how things could have been different.

The 50 Muslim worshippers “gunned down like sheep” at New Zealand mosques could have limited the carnage if they were carrying their own firearms, a leading American gun supporter said.

Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for Virginia-based Gun Owners of America, slammed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s swift move to ban all military style semi-automatic and assault rifles and said terrorists will look to use other weapons including vehicles to mow down victims and knives.

“When they do that all of a sudden it will occur to Australia and New Zealand that gun control has once again failed them and they will look around for more guns to seize,” Hammond told AAP on Thursday.

Last week’s mosque shootings and the New Zealand government’s rapid gun control response has …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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