{"id":185397,"date":"2019-03-19T06:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185397"},"modified":"2019-03-28T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T07:04:31","slug":"memory-hole-new-zealand-news-reports-suggested-2-shooters-ieds-found-strapped-to-multiple-vehicles-suspects-strange-travel-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185397","title":{"rendered":"Memory Hole New Zealand: News Reports Suggested 2 Shooters; IEDs Found Strapped To Multiple Vehicles; Suspect\u2019s Strange Travel History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Aaron Kesel \u2013 Activist Post March 18, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mosque-Shooter-Was-Professionally-Trained.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-185330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mosque-Shooter-Was-Professionally-Trained-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mosque-Shooter-Was-Professionally-Trained-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mosque-Shooter-Was-Professionally-Trained-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mosque-Shooter-Was-Professionally-Trained.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official narrative being pushed in the mainstream press on the tragic shootings at two crowded mosques in New Zealand is that 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant murdered 50 people and injured scores of others at the time of this report by himself. However, there are more questions than answers regarding the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For instance, New Zealand authorities <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/world\/four-in-custody-over-new-zealand-mosqueattacks-ieds-found-on-scene-19896439\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that after the incident four suspects were taken into custody \u2014 three men and a woman. Adding that they had found and neutralized several IEDs (improvised explosive devices) on the vehicles stopped during the arrests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">MSN even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/new-zealand-police-says-four-in-custody-ieds-found\/ar-BBUNlmW\">wrote<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the IEDs were \u201cattached to the attackers\u2019 vehicles,\u201d which was cited by <em>Associated Press<\/em> at the top of the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said in a press conference <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2019\/03\/15\/new-zealand-mosque-shootings-police-commissioner-sot-vpx.cnn\/video\/playlists\/around-the-world\/\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by CNN that the vehicles authorities had stopped had contained IEDs strapped to them. \u201cThere were a number of IEDs attached to vehicles that we stopped,\u201d Bush said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This means that the people arrested weren\u2019t just arrested for no reason and may have been involved despite the mum press failing to ask important questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Early reports of the event by mainstream press suggests there were multiple shooters from witnesses and police as shown in these tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/spectatorindex\/status\/1106388850857766912<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The New Zealand Herald reports that the shooting at the second mosque was stopped by an armed Muslim who &quot;chased the shooters and fired two shots at them as they sped off.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BA2FzsXq2d\">pic.twitter.com\/BA2FzsXq2d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1106407956122263552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This signifies one of two things: either this was a false flag attack, or there were more than one persons involved in this horrific act of murdering Muslims, and the New Zealand government has elected to declare the attack as a lone wolf gunman as a means of National Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In either case, it would be a cover-up, which we see visibly taking place with information being memory-holed, as <em>Activist Post<\/em> contributor Vin Armani noted on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ll just leave this here:<\/p>\n<p>Four people were arrested after this NZ mosque massacre. Watch how the other 3 disappear into the memory hole. That&#39;s because they were the state intelligence operatives who organized the shooting and convinced the low IQ shooter to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Watch.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u24cbin \u24b6rmani (@vinarmani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vinarmani\/status\/1106547687187509250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That was FAST!<\/p>\n<p>The memory holing has already begun<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wp73w5IBhq\">https:\/\/t.co\/wp73w5IBhq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2LNStU3jcj\">pic.twitter.com\/2LNStU3jcj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u24cbin \u24b6rmani (@vinarmani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vinarmani\/status\/1106555854277541888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Further, according to court documents <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/16\/world\/asia\/new-zealand-shooting.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by <em>The New York Times,<\/em> an 18-year-old boy,\u00a0Daniel John Burrough of Christchurch, was also charged with \u201cintent to excite hostility or ill-will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last Friday during prayers multiple people were maimed, police said, on what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as \u201cone of New Zealand\u2019s darkest days.\u201d The two shootings took place at\u00a0Linwood mosque in Christchurch and Masjid Al-Noor mosque on Deans Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Witnesses to shooting at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, describe the horrific scene inside. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7QkHpaROVP\">https:\/\/t.co\/7QkHpaROVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1106397898416099328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand PM Ardern: &quot;Many of those who will have been directly affected by the shooting may be migrants to New Zealand&#8230;they have chosen to make New Zealand their home and it is their home. They are us. The person who has perpetuated this violence against us is not.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R13wr38epR\">pic.twitter.com\/R13wr38epR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1106402134453612545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If we take the two locations on Google Maps, Deans Ave and Linwood Ave located in Christchurch, New Zealand we will see that the two avenues are approximately 15-20 minutes away from each other \u2013 give or take \u2013 by car and 1 hour 30 minutes estimated by foot <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/189+Deans+Avenue,+Riccarton,+Christchurch+8011,+New+Zealand\/260+Linwood+Avenue,+Linwood,+Christchurch+8062,+New+Zealand\/@-43.5295983,172.6090737,13.25z\/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d318a5bc84cd001:0x6dcf3ce4ec764%20\">according<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to Google Maps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This means that it would have been possible for the suspect Tarrant to have driven there, but unlikely if he walked there. With that said, it\u2019s totally feasible that he did the act on his own, but there are still the remaining questions of IEDs on multiple vehicles and the fact that there were 3 other individuals arrested and witnesses stating multiple shooters, as well as video showing potentially two shooters, which has now been memory-holed from the Internet,<em> ZeroHedge <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-16\/nz-threatens-10-years-prison-possessing-mosque-shooting-video-web-hosts-warned\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another odd key fact is Tarrant\u2019s travel history. In the years before Tarrant allegedly carried out the worst mass shooting in New Zealand\u2019s modern history, the Australian citizen claimed to have traveled abroad \u2013 visiting the Balkans, Western Europe, Pakistan, Turkey,\u00a0Iceland, Poland, New Zealand, Argentina, Ukraine and even North Korea, <em>SFGate<\/em> <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/North-Korea-Pakistan-Bulgaria-The-unusual-13694236.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the 74-page manifesto allegedly published by Tarrant on social media, he acknowledges that those experiences were overwhelmingly positive. \u201cThe varied cultures of the world greeted me with warmth and compassion, and I very much enjoyed nearly every moment I spent with them,\u201d he wrote. (This manifesto has now been deleted everywhere.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his manifesto, Tarrant further described how he was first radicalized in Europe in 2017 when his views \u201cdramatically changed\u201d on immigration. On that trip, he traveled through France, Portugal, and elsewhere, he wrote, and was horrified by a truck attack in Stockholm around that time left a young girl dead. Presumably, we can make an educated guess that the truck attack referenced was Rakhmat Akilov, 40, an Uzbek, who had hijacked a truck and steered it down a busy pedestrianized street and into a crowd of shoppers during that same year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last year, Akilov was sentenced to life in prison and found\u00a0guilty of terrorism and murder for the act of using a truck as a murderous weapon that killed five people and injured nearly a dozen others, <em>NY Times<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/07\/world\/europe\/sweden-truck-attack-rakhmat-akilov.html\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The effects of the recent mosque massacre formed calls for more censorship online and for social media companies to filter out violent content like the shooting that was live streamed. We also see an increase in going after human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We even see the demonizing of those looking for information<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cDo not share the video or you are part of this,\u201d\u00a0a former FBI agent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/15\/tech\/new-zealand-shooting-video-facebook-youtube\/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2019-03-15T10%3A44%3A27&amp;utm_source=twCNNi&amp;utm_term=link\">told<\/a><\/strong><\/span> CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Do not share the video or you are part of this,&quot; says a former FBI agent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jml5jPA2lG\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jml5jPA2lG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1106507851688787968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In one case a man was <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/new-zealand-christchurch-mosque-attack-man-arrested-oldham-social-media-post-a8826576.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>arrested<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the UK for showing support for the shooting; which, argue as you may, creating charges like\u00a0 \u201csending malicious communications\u201d is dangerous for a free and open society. The fact is we don\u2019t know what was said, the 24-year-old man from Oldham\u2019s intention, and if he really proclaimed support or is just questioning the event by remaining skeptical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The timing of this is interesting to say the least as this comes on the heels of ACTA 2 and a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2019\/03\/eu-scared-attempts-move-acta-2-vote-before-protests-protest-map-save-internet.html\">vote to pass<\/a> an upload filter in Europe. Make of that what you will, but understand that the mainstream press is already <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190315143922-p0yla\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pushing<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for an upload filter for content not regarding copyright by saying that social media companies couldn\u2019t remove the video fast enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In New Zealand possession of the video is punishable by up to 14 years in prison according to a tweet by freelance journalist Nick Monroe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickmon1112\/status\/1106978863400316929<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickmon1112\/status\/1106987664903933953<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If all of the above is not enough there is even a growing movement that wants to bar <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/national\/should-media-avoid-naming-the-gunmen-mass-shootings\/Z3fTVGAR8eFyUHLIIVUjhI\/\">the media<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from saying mass shooters\u2019 names after their despicable acts. However, that type of thinking is highly flawed. U.S joint chiefs of staff discussed faking mass shootings as a means to frame Cuba during <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=92662&amp;page=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Operation Northwoods<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. If we were to bar journalists from reporting the facts and being transparent about newsworthy events we would only foment conspiracy theories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I am not saying NZ was a false flag attack. But the shooter in the video live streamed was clearly trained, and the mention of two shooters in the mainstream press and other information being memory-holed is suspect to a cover-up for whatever reason that may be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This writer personally suspects and speculates this was a militant White Supremacist attack and that Tarrant had help. Tarrant flashed a White Power Symbol in Court\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/mar\/15\/christchurch-shooting-injuries-reported-as-police-respond-to-critical-incident-live\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>according to the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The truth is: who the hell knows what happened? As humans, when some tragic event happens we try to make sense out of a situation when there are more questions than answers. But it sure looks like more than one person was responsible for such a massive massacre that has been the proverbial \u201cgunshot heard around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 1992, New Zealand tightened its gun laws to restrict access to semi-automatic rifles two years after a mentally disturbed man shot dead 13 people in the South Island town of Aramoana in the 1990s, MSN <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/mass-shootings-are-very-rare-in-new-zealand-which-tightened-its-gun-laws-to-restrict-access-to-semi-automatic-rifles-in-1992-two-years-after-a-mentally-ill-man-shot-dead-13-people-in-the-south-island-town-of%20\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Six years later in 1996, a lone gunman used assault rifles to kill 35 people in the Australian state of Tasmania in what has infamously became known as the Tasmania shooting,<em> Chicago Sun-Times<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/new-zealand-christchurch-mosque-shooting-massacre-gun-reform-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern\/\"> reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In New Zealand\u2019s sister country Australia, following the massacre in 1996, a virtual ban on private ownership of semi-automatic rifles, and a government-funded firearms buyback program, cut the size of the country\u2019s civilian stockpile by almost a third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The measure was opposed by New Zealand who was represented at the 1996 meeting of Australian ministers, two weeks after the Tasmanian massacre. The council agreed that semi-automatic long arms would be banned except for use by licensed professional shooters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">New Zealand\u00a0was the only country out of nine jurisdictions at the conference to reject the gun confiscation legislation despite the shooting in the early \u201990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Already New Zealand is stating that gun reform is coming following the massacre, and Prime Minister\u00a0Jacinda Ardern has further said that there will be no opposition to that legislation like the U.S, <em>The Washington Times<\/em> <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/mar\/17\/new-zealand-welcomes-jacinta-ardern-gun-control-af\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s important to note this author believes that people died; and even if this was a false-flag attack, throughout history governments have suggested killing innocent civilians from Gladio to Operation Northwoods. Please don\u2019t treat this as a crisis actor event because it\u2019s not. May those lost for mere worship rest in peace regardless if this was a false flag attack or multiple shooters were involved \u2014 this was a tragedy. The New Zealand government has some questions to answer, though, given the complete whitewash of this narrative in a matter of hours of it happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Interestingly enough, New Zealand\u2019s laws for owning a firearm are \u201crestrictive\u201d \u2014 civilians are not allowed to possess handguns, military-style semi-automatic weapons or fully automatic weapons without a permit and a firearm license.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However, according to NZ law, a 16-year-old can apply for a standard firearms license after completing a safety course, which allows them to purchase and use a shotgun unsupervised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2011, the Israeli secret service Mossad was accused of conducting an intelligence-gathering operation in New Zealand which was unearthed because of an earthquake in Christchurch that crushed a spy van and killed Ofer Mizrahi who had 5 passports at his time of death, <em>Telegraph <\/em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/australiaandthepacific\/newzealand\/8649223\/Mossad-spy-ring-unearthed-because-of-Christchurch-earthquake.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Stratfor employees even emailed each other on\u00a02011-07-20 about the story,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/search.wikileaks.org\/gifiles\/emailid\/2121324\">according<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to WikiLeaks GI Files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the gun debate, there is only one video that ever needs to be seen and that\u2019s the U.S. Congressional hearing testimony of Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a survivor of the\u00a0Luby\u2019s shooting, also known as the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luby%27s_shooting\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Luby\u2019s massacre<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1u0Byq5Qis\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On October 16, 1991,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Hennard\">George Hennard<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0drove his 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby\u2019s Cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen, screaming \u201cThis is what Bell County has done to me!\u201d then opened fire on the restaurant\u2019s patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and later a Ruger P89.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During the shooting, Hennard approached Suzanna Gratia Hupp and her parents. Hupp had actually brought a handgun to the Luby\u2019s Cafeteria that day but had left it in her vehicle due to the laws enforced at the time, forbidding citizens from carrying firearms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to her testimony in favor of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wmsa.net\/legacy-wmsa\/gratia-hupp_1992.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Missouri\u2019s HB-1720 bill<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(a law to allow concealed carry), after she realized that her firearm was not in her purse but \u201ca hundred feet away in her car,\u201d her father charged at Hennard in an attempt to subdue him, only to be gunned down; a short time later, her mother was also shot and killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hupp expressed regret for abiding by the law in question by leaving her firearm in her car, rather than keeping it on her person. She further stated that she didn\u2019t blame the killer or the gun; she blamed her legislators because she couldn\u2019t protect herself and her family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I\u2019ll leave you with a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/140634-those-who-would-give-up-essential-liberty-to-purchase-a\">quote<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0from a founding father of the U.S. Benjamin Franklin, \u201cThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.\u201d Someday you may be in\u00a0Suzanna Gratia Hupp\u2019s shoes wishing that you had a firearm to protect yourself or your family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s worth mentioning that the killer (or killers) was stopped by a man with a firearm. Although in a perfect world you shouldn\u2019t need to have a gun to protect yourself, that\u2019s not the type of society we now live in. A gun is a tool and it can be used for self-defense or aggression, it all depends on whose hand the weapon is in and the person\u2019s intention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post. Support us at <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/activistpost\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. 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