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Colins69 Well Established Member

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Unbelievable that can happen at golf, fortunately not possible in New Zealand as we're not allowed personal firearms. Thinking it's a trust issue here, very sad day for his family. RIP...


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android-icon-192x192.png Pro golfer shot and killed on Georgia country club golf course

Gene Siller was shot at Pinetree Country Club's golf course by a man who drove a white pickup...

 

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 Very sad.

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5 hours ago, Colins69 said:

fortunately not possible in New Zealand as we're not allowed personal firearms.

Is this true?

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favicon-32x32.ico New Zealand: Ardern flags further gun control reforms after firearms charges peak | New Zealand | The Guardian

Prime minister says 2020 police statistics have only reinforced government’s commitment to crackdown

 

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Dangerously close to politics. Avoid.

One should still be able to assume what’s in news is true.

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Three dead:

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favicon-16x16.png 3 Shot To Death At A Georgia Country Club; Suspect Hasn't Been Caught Yet

Gene Siller, a golf pro at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Ga., was found dead at the 10th hole of the course. Two other men's bodies were found in the back of a pickup truck nearby.

Sounds like he was checking into something without knowing how serious it was.

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Not to be disrespectful with how tragic this is, but it’s kind of strange phrasing that they would write that it took “further investigation” to determine that there was a pickup truck on the green with two other bodies. 

 

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5 hours ago, iacas said:

Dangerously close to politics. Avoid.

One should still be able to assume what’s in news is true.

This is dangerously naive in the world we live in.  

But then again, what the hell do I know?

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Totally senseless.  Betting the shooter/killer is not totally there.  Will be interested to see how this all shakes out... there may be "the rest of the story."


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4 hours ago, turtleback said:

This is dangerously naive in the world we live in.  

It’s not naïve. It’s just not always true, but there are still many who write actual news stories.

Maybe a bit hopeful. But also that’s not an American news site.

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12 hours ago, Carl3 said:

Is this true?

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favicon-32x32.ico New Zealand: Ardern flags further gun control reforms after firearms charges peak | New Zealand | The Guardian

Prime minister says 2020 police statistics have only reinforced government’s commitment to crackdown

 

Yes it is true but has been forever really, the so called crackdown is against automatic guns as a result of the Christchurch massacre. You don’t miss what you never had although to be fair as reference as a young man I had a .22 Winchester rifle and then a xarmy.303 for deer and pig hunting. As @iacas said this is not about politics just the sad loss of a mans life…


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7 minutes ago, Colins69 said:

Yes it is true but has been forever really, the so called crackdown is against automatic guns as a result of the Christchurch massacre. You don’t miss what you never had although to be fair as reference as a young man I had a .22 Winchester rifle and then a xarmy.303 for deer and pig hunting. As @iacas said this is not about politics just the sad loss of a mans life…

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41 minutes ago, Colins69 said:

Yes it is true but has been forever really, the so called crackdown is against automatic guns as a result of the Christchurch massacre. You don’t miss what you never had although to be fair as reference as a young man I had a .22 Winchester rifle and then a xarmy.303 for deer and pig hunting. As @iacas said this is not about politics just the sad loss of a mans life…

A perspective that some may find interesting (and weird).

I was in NZ a couple of years ago - I visit every year at least once - and was driving out of Aoraki Mt Cook, a few kilometres from the village in a totally unpopulated area in the middle of the photo I have attached right where the "80" is. I saw a man walking along the road and into the grass carrying what I guess was a .22 rifle.  Many people would see this on a daily basis and think nothing of it, but, coming from a place without  gun culture, I thought it was one of the strangest, eeriest things I have ever seen. He was probably licenced to shoot feral animals, but to me it was an almost surreal sight.

I only mention this to point out interesting cultural differences amongst friends who in so many areas of life are so similar.

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4 hours ago, iacas said:

It’s not naïve. It’s just not always true, but there are still many who write actual news stories.

Maybe a bit hopeful. But also that’s not an American news site.

It is naive to assume a news story is true.  It is realistic to assume that in the absence of actual facts that can be corroborated it is fake.

I could give you literally (the real meaning of literally) hundreds of examples but that would cross over into the forbidden territory of politics.  

C'mon, I've been around here long enough to know that you are way too smart to assume that a given news story is true.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

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42 minutes ago, turtleback said:

It is naive to assume a news story is true.

You misread what I wrote.

Back to the topic.

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Arrest made.

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Authorities have charged and arrested Bryan Rhoden in the July 3 triple homicide at the Pinetree Country Club, in which golf pro Gene Siller was killed, Cobb County Police Chief Tim Cox said in...

 

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