In one day, more people were murdered in New Zealand than are usually killed in an entire year
When a gunman opened fire on a mosque in New Zealand on Friday, and a second mosque came under attack, the resulting death toll of at least 49 people meant that more were killed on one day than are usually murdered in an entire year in the country, according to national police statistics.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed the public on Friday evening local time, calling it “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.”
Three suspects are in custody, and one man, the only one so far charged with murder in the case, released a manifesto online hinting at the years-long relative peacefulness in New Zealand as one motive for the attack, which he suggested would show “that nowhere in the world was safe.” His claim echoed remarks by an apparent role model, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people — many of them teenagers — in 2011. Norway has roughly the same population as New Zealand, and an even lower murder rate.
The easy access to guns and Friday’s attack may result in calls for a rethink of authorities’ approach to gun laws and their own equipment. While New Zealand’s gun laws have triggered tense but restrained debates in the past, nowhere has the conversation been so heated and ideological as in the United States.
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