Last week the spate of shootings in Auckland paused - making room for the multiple stabbing of four innocents that was described by police (District-Commander Superintendent Naila Hassan) as "The attack was not a hate crime -The victims were of different gender, ethnicity and age,” Hassan said.
- At the weekend it was the turn of Christchurch to suffer the fatal stabbing in Sockburn of a defenseless woman when attacked by a male stranger.
The Police spokesperson stated "community, and the family - need to understand the why - given the random nature of the horrific attack, "I want to reinforce that this was an isolated incident and we are not seeking anyone else." Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price said "this was a traumatic, senseless and random attack on an innocent person" at his media conference. community," - "given the random nature of the horrific attack".
New Zealand does seem to be suffering from a succession of these isolated random attacks on soft targets by a proliferation of violent nutters whose heads are filled with feelings of grievance and hatred.
Our prisons are overfilled and our Mental Health facilities are overloaded by sick persons queuing-up on waiting lists to be prescribed hand-fills of pills to ease and modify their behavior.
The present 'BRITISH' way of pretending to deal with these serious societal issues is to restrict and prohibit WEAPONS while neglecting the treatment and restraint of the violent offenders.
It seems that politicians currently choose the low cost option of 'BANS' rather than using the taxpayers money for services and facilities to actually do something to address the offenders.
In British cities nowadays a common 'weapon of choice' seems to be a sharpened screwdriver ..
Firearms and knives and motor vehicles are TOOLS when in the proper hands - But tools can be made into WEAPONS .. while a violent attacker continues to be a violent offender.
Marty K.
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