West should be alert to supremacist terror
In what New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called "one of the country's darkest days", 50 people were killed and 50 wounded when a man attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.
Indiscriminately killing innocent people, including children, seemingly with aim of creating an "atmosphere of fear" and to "incite violence" against a particular group is a typical terrorist act, and all who are righteous-minded should condemn such violence.
On Saturday, Ardern pledged to reform the country's relaxed gun laws, as the police investigation shows the attacker was a licensed gun owner. True, New Zealand's private firearm ownership rate - about one firearm per three people in contrast with one in eight in Australia - is among the highest in the world. But only focusing on the reform of gun laws may cure the symptoms, not the disease.
