The New Zealand Mosque Shooter Manifesto

[Tex Nomex]

His manifesto is getting hard to find online. But I did read the entire thing; with a neutral standpoint and to also look into his psychological condition.

Quite harsh in implementation, but if you read the entirety of what he says about the gun banning issue, he does have a good point about what governments are doing.

I don't think the event has any big $ people backing.

Sad to say, I do believe we will see more of these things in the future.

I have a copy of the shooter's manifesto and have read it. He thinks he's a soldier in a war for racial/cultural separatism. That's why the professed respect for all cultures and a call for separate countries for different peoples and cultures. His murderous rampage, in his mind, was a call to arms for european-based cultures to defend themselves from racial (ethnic) and cultural invasion.

Nothing new here. It's very much what the world has seen throughout time - including many regional ethnic/religious/racial conflicts today. I personally don't believe in the concept of human races, but do realize that physical attributes of the tribe affect human psychology at the individual and group levels and I recognize that 'ethnic' and cultural clashes have been a major driver of human history. No one should be surprised that a mad shooter's conclusions are, in the end, based on these.

As far as the Kiwi reaction goes, the folks I know in NZ (college-educated, south island) are more like Canadians than Americans. They want to live together in peace for the most part and are willing to sacrifice privileges to do so. One concern on my part is that they may be largely unaware that they've been subject to the same anti-gun propaganda that we've experienced so long in the states. If you look at the verbiage used by the media and gov't officials, it's full of the same terms like "common sense gun laws", "military-style weapons", etc.. That's no coincidence. The "NZ Gun Lobby" is reportedly being kept out of the conversation, but Philip Alpers' GunPolicy.org (UN funded, no less!) is in the thick of it? Hmmmm.... But, as long as citizens know that's happening and take it into account in the decision making process, NZ can decide to do whatever they want with their firearms and the rest of us should be totally cool with it. It's their country. (This differs from my initial "WTF, Kiwis?" reaction)

I haven't asked, but I wonder if there's a concern there about government overreach. An agency has exercised power to change regs on the fly and make thousands of people potential criminals (BATFE and AR pistols, anyone?) and the gov't has banned the reading or distribution of the shooter's manifesto under penalty of imprisonment. Apparently, any website that publishes a copy of the shooter's booklet gets blocked by NZ ISPs. It's not a total political crackdown, though. Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto are still available for viewing....