Fortunately, New Zealand Does Not Have the NRA

3/15/19 USA Today:

On what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labeled as "one of New Zealand's darkest days," 49 people were killed in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, the worst act of violence in the country in nearly three decades.

“It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack,” Ardern said.
Police arrested three men and a woman. One of the suspects has been charged with murder.

Of course, Occasional-Cortex is blaming NRA. 

This summary of the killer's ideas makes him sound like Occasional-Cortex blended with David Duke.  He describes himself as an eco-fascist:

Western culture is trivialized, pulped and blended into a smear of meaningless nothing, with the only tenets and beliefs seemingly held to are the myth of the individual, the value of work (productivity for the benefit of your capitalist owners) and the sovereignty of property (to ensure none of us get grand ideas of taking the unearned wealth of our owners.)

Worse:

A secondary goal was to goad individuals on the Left into pushing for gun control. He says he chose to use guns in order to push precisely that agenda in order to “create conflict between the two ideologies within the United States.” He believes if the Left can be pushed into trying to weaken Second Amendment rights this will splinter the country, resulting in “a civil war that will eventually balkanize the US along political, cultural and, most importantly, racial lines.”

 If this seems odd, he is a fan of the People's Republic of China and recently visited North Korea.  A U.S .in civil war would cease to be a limit on the ambitions of the aforesaid nations.  If balkanization seems unlikely, consider this map of the mess that was collapsing  Yugoslavia:

Imagine the U.S. with widespread rebellion against the national government, and the mainstream media selling it as a race and religious war.  You know they would, completely unconcerned about hundreds of thousands dead.