Thanks Fossil. Most of us think "Not him again!" when Tama Iti appears on TV. Several years back he bared his backside to the Queen, during a royal visit.
He's a rather arrogant, little fat activist who seems to think we should step back 100 years and fight it out, until his followers get rid of the rest of us.
Jack, you'd be amongst those he wants to send back to where you (or your forebears) came from.
Me? I'd be happy to go back to Padstow but my family left there over 150 years ago and there's no place for me there. Only as a visitor. NZ is where I was born and I feel I have a right to live here and bring up my family safely without activists/terrorists threatening us.
And I don't know of anyone who has a gun! None of my friends are hunters.
Hone Heke used an axe!
If you tried walking the streets of NZ carrying a gun, the police would have you cornered and stopped - maybe with a taser, in no time at all! Even ordinary police are not allowed to carry a gun - only the Armed Offender's Squad when they are called in on rare occasions.
Robyn