Posts by Alfie
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Here's some more background on Tipple, c/ Reed Fleming on Twitter.
Fit and proper person? Jeez... he barely qualifies as human. It's hard to imagine how Tipple could get even the most basic gun license, let alone operate the biggest gun shops in NZ.
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Tipple’s just had his say in front of the finance and expenditure committee. And there’s nothing in the Herald report to suggest he’s developed any empathy over recent days. Guilt doesn’t seem to affect some people.
Tipple admitted that since March 15, Gun City has sold “dozens, not hundreds” of weapons similar to the ones his company sold to the terrorist. He also said “there were no loopholes in existing law” and called Newshub journos “terrorists”.
Nothing Trumpian and unhinged to see here folks.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to BenWilson,
It’s really a tasteless threadjack to continue this discussion of the right to automobiles in this thread
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Meanwhile... David Tipple just doesn't know when to shut up.
"We didn't ban big white trucks after the Nice murders..."
Fuckwit!
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to ,
Using a military style semiautomatic weapon to produce your own meat product is actually can actually save a tiny bit of money, if you’re not counting the bullets.
Because semi-autos allow you to dice the animal as you kill it? Our laws will still allow five and seven shot magazines. Anyone who needs the multi-shot capacity of a military-style weapon to kill an animal is not a hunter -- they're a butcher.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Pete,
No I don’t need a semiautomatic and you don’t need a car
Er... one of these things transports us from A to B, whilst the other gives its owner the ability to extinguish life on an industrial scale. That's an odd analogy, at best.
I'm still not sure what your argument is Pete, or if you even had one. For me the underlying question is, what possible justification does anyone in NZ have for owning military-style multiple-killing devices?
Nicole whatever-her-name-is from the gun lobby is using her 15 minutes of fame to repeat the NRA line, that gun owners' rights are somehow being trampled in this process. To suck that one up you'd have to believe that a relatively small group of New Zealanders has some inherent "right" to possess their very own weapon of mass murder. Or two... or ten.
Look around, Pete. From where I'm sitting the overwhelming majority of kiwis are no longer prepared to tolerate the flawed laws which allowed this tragedy to happen. We've had enough. And we fully support our government's speedy response. It's as simple as that.
At this particular time in our country's history, anyone demanding continued citizen access to military weaponry inevitably comes across as a rather sad person, shouting pointlessly at some imagined approaching darkness.
You don't need to be that man, Pete.
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And while I'm here, David Tipple can go fuck himself.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Pete,
I will fight this ban however I legally am able and will never again aid or assist anyone who has supported it
Hey Pete. I'm sure it's not you... it's those other 4.9m kiwis who have it completely wrong, eh. I assume you're not defending anyone's god-given "right" to possess instruments of mass murder, but without some sort of reasoning, it's hard to understand how anyone with even half a brain would follow the NRA line.
Is there any particular reason you are so far out of step with the rest of the country?
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In a bizarre postscript to this thread -- Michael Avenatti is fucked. Was trying to extort $25m from Nike ever likely to end well?
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The Ray White franchise in Blockhouse Bay has just sacked husband and wife agents Paul and Kathryn Davie after anti-muslim Facebook posts from the pair were flagged by a member of the public.
Interestingly, Paul Davie stood as a candidate for the Conservative Party in New Lynn last election.
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That "vile, anti-Islamic rants" were posted on Whale Oil doesn't surprise me. The fact that some of them came from a "senior doctor" does.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to Katita,
Where did the money come from?
Media reports so far suggest an inheritance from his father and possibly a minor windfall with some oddball cyber-currency.