Over in this thread from one of the sites in NZ run by a dedicated hunter and hunting ballistics researcher:
Here is his post for those of you who don't get a chance to follow the link:
(This is a quoted post directly copied from the above link, it is Not anything written my me).
Quoted:
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Nathan Foster
Re: Mass Shooting
Yes this is terrible in every way. Words cannot help the victims. Nothing can remove the pain which simply has to be felt. Emotions must flow. Pain and love are given in equal measures and in the same moment building to uncontrollable levels. Our only outlet is to cry.
I have not seen the live stream of this, our immediate concern is that when Riley goes to school she may see it from classmates. The school has no checks or balances over social media. We have so far kept Riley away from social media but other parents do not yet seem to fully understand the ramifications of allowing kids to access the internet freely.
During 2017 / 2018 Steph and I worked on a project in which we viewed other live stream material. The weapons in these instances were explosives. The victims were the same, innocent people trapped in buildings / cities. During our briefings we were shown how the attackers were not always religious zealots but instead, disenfranchised youths. We were not allowed to use the word terrorist in our briefings as this created false perceptions (quite true). Current terminology includes such terms as non-state actors or unlawful combatants. But our project leader used a more descriptive term - rock stars of carnage. Sadly, this latter description is the most accurate.
Regardless of which proposed tactic was projected (government controls, counter strategies), the outcome was made worse. Do nothing it gets worse via basic problems of overpopulation versus lack. Add controls, it gets worse at a faster rate. With totalitarian control, large groups of ordinary people would be forced to take state / anti state stances. Ultimately, the project resulted in a system of damage control. All current methods of dealing with human disharmony involve force against force to one extent or another.
Steph and I are still engaged in this work, though it is not yet recognized in NZ as up until a few hours ago, there were no domestic threats.
It is important that we have physical counter measures (such as those developed in our projects. But as I look back on what we have learned, it is obvious that counter measures do not get to the root of problems. My expertise in ballistics is a useful, but does not provide preventative measures.
Understand, there is no law that can prevent more of this, Already, somebody will be plotting another attack in another country, hoping to beat the numbers.
In my experience, fear cannot be extinguished with more fear. The threat of punishment for a crime does does not always prevent crime as we have just seen. If we are to have any hope of reversing these trends, we need to stop spreading messages of fear (leading to hate) via our media and social media. It is imperative that we stop telling our children that our race is bad, unnatural, flawed, damaging the environment, comments about the world being **ed... whatever. If we keep feeding this fear into our children, more will grow to be the villains of society.
It is time for us to start being kind to ourselves. It is time to shut out these messages of fear, look within and nurture love. And we also need to learn how to properly nurture our children, not leave them to be raised by the media or social media and school studies thereof. Our children need to know that they are loved and how to love themselves. They need to learn the difference between self love and self centered behavior which comes from a fear of lack.
We are constantly told to be more compassionate and more loving towards others but we have no understanding of how to do this because we do not know how to love to ourselves. If you do not own something - you cannot give it away. If you do not have love for yourself, you have no love to share with others.
These rock stars of carnage are completely reliant on you looking at them, creating the thing that they crave - an audience.
I urge you to look within yourself this very moment. Do not be afraid, if you look within and feel that you (our race) is bad, look deeper. At your core, you will find love. It was there when you were born and will be all that remains when you take your last breath.
Start this very moment.
For our own survival, we must recognize that we are love, we are good, we are magnificent. No matter what actions others might take in their reaction to fear, we must learn to see that love is at our core. If you can learn to recognize this within yourself, this is what you will show to the world - love. "
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