For many in Christchurch, a city of nearly 370,000, the sentencing was an opportunity to start healing from the shooting. Earlier in 2020, Tarrant pleaded guilty after a surprise reversal of his original plea, but he has now appealed both the sentencing and conviction, New Zealand’s court of appeals confirmed Tuesday. “This is rather a blatant and calculated attempt to retraumatise the Christchurch victims specifically and the nation as a whole. We should give him nothing.”In the days following the massacre in 2019, Ardern pledged to change the country’s gun laws. The theory was also present in screeds left by shooters in El Paso in 2019 and Buffalo earlier this year.

Source: Stuff November 08, 2022 08:53 UTC