Police check firearm licence applicants for signs of 'extreme right' after March 15 terror attack
The link: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/113666061/police-check-firearm-licence-applicants-for-signs-of-extreme-right-after-march-15-terror-attack
The story states that the police are checking gun license applicants for tattoos and Celtic, Nordic and Nazi symbolism, assumably prior to granting the licenses.
Fair enough too: Shootings in New Zealand by New Zealand far right activists for political purposes are at an all time high reaching exactly zero in living memory.
Police attribute tattoos and Celtic, Nordic and Nazi symbolism to far right ideology although why far right ideology is dangerous they don't explain.
What I do note is that the largest displayer of tattoos, Celtic, Nordic and Nazi symbolism, added to Nazi-like chants is not political at all but a largely brown gang of criminals.
The police are happy for these apolitical brown fellows to keep their guns.
Are the NZ Police and the government that is instructing them just a touch racist?
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