Remember the old (not so funny) joke: “If guns are banned, can we use swords?”
Seems as though the Kiwi criminals and sickos, like their Brit compatriots, have taken this to heart:
Four people have allegedly been stabbed after a knife-wielding man went on a rampage on the beach in New Zealand.
The rampage is believed to have come to an end after a local construction worker hit the alleged stabber with a walking crutch.
My takeaway from this is that had I been the construction worker, I’d probably have beaten the scumbag to death, thereby becoming the bad guy.
Here’s a graphic account:
One woman had headed down to the beach to take her dog for a walk when she was confronted by the man and his ‘big knife’. She said the man had started walking towards her but then broke out into a run.
‘And – fight or flight – I turned away and ran the other way and I looked back and he had a big knife, running at me,’ the woman told the NZ Herald. ‘I was screaming, calling out for help because he was chasing me with this big knife.’
The woman managed to get away from the man unharmed, and immediately called police.
The police arrived far too late to do anything of value, of course, because by the time they got there Our Hero had stopped the attacks.
It would have been far easier for the woman above just to pop a couple of .45 bullets into the goblin’s chest, of course, but the Kiwis aren’t allowed to do that. It seems that for the New Zealanders and their elected politicians, the alternative — helpless victims slaughtered — is preferable.
Yes, we here in little old Perth had a man just walking down a suburban street when a complete stranger approached, pulled out a machete and slashed the victim twice before running away. Police are “appealing to the public for witnesses to come forward”.
Bang! Bang!
I was on a bus ride from rural VA to Washington DC and sat next to a fascinating career Air Force Veteran. He had multiple tours of Southeast Asia during his career. During the course of our conversation he told me that he felt safer in Southeast Asia than New York City because in SE Asia he could at least shoot back. I think I was about 20 when I had that conversation.
JQ