Yesterday National’s Police spokesman Brett Hudson asked questions of Police Minister Stuart Nash on yesterday’s exposé that the Police failed to follow the law and properly vet the Christchurch shooter which enabled him to obtain a firearm’s licence and then legally purchase firearms for his terror attack.
Hello Todd and Brett, I have been a National voter all my adult life. I am also a licensed firearms owner. You are currently going to lose my vote (along with that of my partner, also an LFO). First, National under Simon Bridges threw their weight behind the firearms law
In case you’ve not seen it, yesterday Stuff “broke” the story that Brenton Tarrant was given a firearms licence without going through the required vetting – a breach of the Police’s own policy. The March 15 terrorist was wrongly granted a firearms licence due to a string of police
The Government looks set to forge ahead with its gun reforms after a last-minute agreement was forged between Labour and NZ First. This will include establishing an independent entity to take over firearms licensing and administration. Progress on the bill, which includes a firearms registry, harsher penalties, and a warning
Rachel Poulain Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition The last few weeks have demonstrated that 2020 has no intention of slowing down. It has been just over two weeks since the death of George Floyd and already the tidal-wave of reactions seem to have washed away any thought COVID-19. For all the
When Golriz Gharaman told Newshub Nation that our colonial statues and memorials should be removed because the “hurtful aspects of history don’t represent us now”, I hoped Tova O’Brien would remind her about her country of birth’s violent history of destroying statues and monuments of the previous
Mark You have probably seen the ads on TV encouraging us to vote for cannabis reform “on our terms.” Putting aside the obvious question of where the money is coming from to pay for these very professionally produced ads and the airtime it runs on, I’d like to critique
Minneapolis has been brewing this storm-in-a-teacup story of racist police long before George Floyd was murdered. Nine of the eleven councillors were primed and ready to outvote Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who would not commit to abolishing the police at a demonstration last Saturday where protesters shouted, “Go home,
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Here at COLFO, we’re still chipping away at the politicians and the Government in relation to the second round of law changes – that are still sitting on the Parliamentary ‘Order Paper’ waiting for what’s called the Committee of the Whole Stage
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand have become a farce. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is now looking foolish after thousands of people took to the streets in protest action on Monday, thumbing their nose at her Level 2 lockdown rules, while the Police watched on
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Bernie McIntyre On 28 March 2020 we heard that there was going to be a Ngati Manu burial at Karetu, Te Tai Tokerau, at 11am Sunday 29 March. I’m a New Zealander and also Ngati Manu. I and many others disagreed with the gathering as it was NOT an
“Prejudice” is derived from the Latin term, praeiudicium. Literally, “prior judgement”. As it got handed down into English, it came to mean that pre-judging a case was a very bad idea. The American high school girls suing for the right of females to exclusively compete in female sports have recently
Parris Goebel culturally appropriated another country and people’s cause yesterday and in doing so gave the big middle finger to Jacinda Ardern and her “team of 5 Million.” How yesterday’s protest was handled revealed how real the threat against New Zealand lives from COVID-19 really is. The protest
