Kate Hawkesby: We can't put our heads in the sand and pretend this violence isn't happening

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 7, 2023 · 3m

I got sent a video yesterday, which I assume is doing the rounds, of the Point England shooting in Auckland on the weekend.

2.30pm on a Saturday afternoon in a suburban neighbourhood in Auckland. That makes three shootings in a week by the way for our country, three separate gunmen on the loose – still at large – and three victims dead.

It seems unfathomable that this is the state of our country right now. The video of the Point England one shows a scene of chaos; people running around, as shots volley out across the reserve.

It’s incredulous to watch and think this is just a family suburb of…