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Also posted earlier today: ‘New Zealand PM announces ban on all assault rifles after Christchurch massacre’ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449256 https:

• Simulacra 8y ago
  That post is dead and was flagged apparently.
  • mrmondo 8y ago
    Oh, strange - I wonder why? (mods feel free to message me so I can improve future posts if required), I don’t generally have a bad rep on HN and it was an uneditoritialised title etc... anyway - what matters is that people are aware of the news, not who posts a link to it. — Context as to why I posted earlier today: I was born, grew up and lived in Christchurch until 2012 when I moved to Melbourne. I was there and working in the main hospitals (sysadmin / ops engineer running the primary patient management and some lab systems) and in that role during both of the two major earthquakes that levelled the city. The emotional, mental and social stress of those two major ‘natural’ disasters were so incredibly deviststing and this this shooting has surely got to pile on for people still living there.
    • samfriedman 8y ago
      FYI a lot of HN users flag non-tech/politics submissions wholesale. Either because they don't feel they fit the HN topic, or because these topics often devolve to flamewars.
      • mrmondo 8y ago
        Yeah fair enough too - it isn’t tech related, while political I feel it’s more social but certainly not technical.