Updated March 17, 2019 14:36:21 Photo: Brenton Tarrant, pictured in Pakistan in 2018. (Supplied) When lives are tragically cut short, it is generally easier to explain the “how” than the “why”. This dark reality is all the more felt when tragedy comes at the hands of murderous intent. Explaining how 50 people came to be killed, and almost as many badly injured, in Christchurch’s double massacre of Muslims at prayer is heartbreaking but relatively straightforward. As with so many mass murders in recent years, the use of an assault rifle, the ubiquitous AR15 , oxymoronically referred to as “the civilian M-16”, explains how one cowardly killer could be so lethal. It was much the same in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando three years ago, when one gunman shot dead 49 people in a crowded space and, though the motive appears very different, the same sort of military instrument of death lies behind the 58 deaths in Las Vegas a year later. An AR15 was used to shoot dead 11 worshippe
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