I think it’s more a difference in training and attitude - there is an emphasis on bringing in people alive in Australia and New Zealand, and police don’t generally shoot to kill unless they have to (and some instances, have been criticized for wounding suspects instead of killing them because they did so against…

Just because the American military actually has stricter gun discipline in a war zone than American cops have in general, doesn’t mean the rest of the world trains their police force so poorly. In most countries, the police is actually trained to catch the suspect, not gun everyone down that looks at them funny.

I’d say they’re trained for it. It would be naive not to have people trained to deal with terrorism in today’s world, even if they live in a place where it doesn’t happen often. In fact, they have a separate unit that deals specifically with it. 

Also the fact that NZ police aren’t routinely armed and don’t instinctively resort to shooting people when arresting them. 

that has more to do with NZ police not being trigger happy like U.S. ones are, in NZ attacks like this are extremely rare so they are not trained for this sort of thing.

I know they’re worried about legal ramifications, but at some point I think Valve just needs to come out and say:

I’m not defending or siding with either party on this one, I’m just very curious as to what the actual circumstances were that brought this about, like is nobody else questioning that?

In the “interview”—which was picked up by a number of news sites, including our own—Johnson supposedly defamed the members of “generation snowflake” in a generally un-Rock-like fashion, being quoted as saying that “this generation are looking for a reason to be offended.”

as you said, that women who are raped are basically garbage.

*Mussolini