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Why us????
16-Mar-19 03:04
You may or may not of heard about the mass shooting yesterday in Christchurch New Zealand where I live.
Why us?
We are a peaceful and welcoming country.
It was the most scariest thing I have every been through. Even worst than the earthquakes.
I work not to far from the first target (about a five minutes walk away) and the bombs were found just down the road from my work.
We got locked down for about five hours and I just wanted to get home to see if Mrs Ch was okay.
My work has plate glass wall in front and no real protection to stop a bullet going from one end to another. Differently wouldn't stop a military round.
All we could do was turn the lights off lock the door and couch around a wall and hope he wasn't roaming around where we work. Thank God he wasn't. So hard not think about what would I do if the worst happened.
Unbelievably hard to sleep last night. Didn't know if more people roaming around city. Helicopters flying overhead and armed police (yet alone heavily armed police) not something we expect.
Give some context, we have a city population of about 370,000, with 1,000 police officers of all types. They emptied the city's Police arsenal, every Police office was armed and deployed, Brought in the AOS and Crisis Response Teams & I think even deploy some SAS. They grounded all flights and filled the sky with helicopters, they even place an Army battalion based just outside the city on standby. They locked down, all schools all hospitals, all businesses and told anyone home to stay there.
In fact I think they armed every Police officer on duty in the country as well in case there was a larger plot. Appears not but better safe than sorry.
Some more context 49 people had their lives taken, that is more that the total number killed in 2017 for the whole country.
But ultimately we are Mrs Ch & I are both fine.
I just can't understand it. I have Muslim friends, they don't hate us. So why target them.
I am hoping they will sentence him, it will be hard to not find him guilty (he appeared in court today and entered no plea - bloody hell he filmed it) , to preventative detection - which is basically detained at Her Majesty's pleasure for the rest of your nature life.
But why us?
Why us?
We are a peaceful and welcoming country.
It was the most scariest thing I have every been through. Even worst than the earthquakes.
I work not to far from the first target (about a five minutes walk away) and the bombs were found just down the road from my work.
We got locked down for about five hours and I just wanted to get home to see if Mrs Ch was okay.
My work has plate glass wall in front and no real protection to stop a bullet going from one end to another. Differently wouldn't stop a military round.
All we could do was turn the lights off lock the door and couch around a wall and hope he wasn't roaming around where we work. Thank God he wasn't. So hard not think about what would I do if the worst happened.
Unbelievably hard to sleep last night. Didn't know if more people roaming around city. Helicopters flying overhead and armed police (yet alone heavily armed police) not something we expect.
Give some context, we have a city population of about 370,000, with 1,000 police officers of all types. They emptied the city's Police arsenal, every Police office was armed and deployed, Brought in the AOS and Crisis Response Teams & I think even deploy some SAS. They grounded all flights and filled the sky with helicopters, they even place an Army battalion based just outside the city on standby. They locked down, all schools all hospitals, all businesses and told anyone home to stay there.
In fact I think they armed every Police officer on duty in the country as well in case there was a larger plot. Appears not but better safe than sorry.
Some more context 49 people had their lives taken, that is more that the total number killed in 2017 for the whole country.
But ultimately we are Mrs Ch & I are both fine.
I just can't understand it. I have Muslim friends, they don't hate us. So why target them.
I am hoping they will sentence him, it will be hard to not find him guilty (he appeared in court today and entered no plea - bloody hell he filmed it) , to preventative detection - which is basically detained at Her Majesty's pleasure for the rest of your nature life.
But why us?
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