Gun Policy News
Knee-Jerk Calls to Arm New Zealand Police 'Illogical and Impractical'
10 May 2009
New Zealand Herald, Editorial
Even as gunman Jan Molenaar continued to fire indiscriminately — and the body of officer Len Snee lay helpless — two common and disturbing threads of the New Zealand personality fabric were emerging.
The Knee-Jerk and Know-All are characters who run roughshod over Common Sense. They trawl internet forums and radio talkback shows — alleged "first-time callers" whose arguments are cliched and ill-judged.
Within 12 hours of Molenaar's mad shooting outbreak,... (GunPolicy.org)