Active shooter in NZ

[Yonadav]

A racist psychotic simpleton who has managed to filter all his life's problems to a bunch of random innocent people during their time of prayer.

But isn't that the end game for all shooters like this?...

And they're all usually under the radar... until it's too late sadly.

They're "low priority" until they pop up. That's the problem, we're not enough of a police state to keep tabs on every loony out there.

I don't think that they are low priority. We try not to be a police state. If we become a police state because of guys like this, we're going to be detaining a whole bunch of people for murky reasons. One poster in this forum did spend quite a bit of time detained for his association with someone who was suspect. That's what happens in police states. And then people join opposition to the police state, and things get really weird. So it isn't really a matter of some fringe wackos being low priority. It is what will happen if we start taking really strong measures to get them before they have done anything-- we'll start detaining a bunch of people who haven't done anything for progressively murkier reasons.