The report goes on to consider "what might have happened" had the licensing policy and process been appropriate and how this may have impacted the events of March 15. While hypothetical and speculative, "if the individual's application had not been granted, … We think it possible, and perhaps likely, that he would have been able to obtain a licence eventually,". But this is a message I wish all of this House to hear, particularly those who take diverse views on gun laws: "It is also possible that he may have formulated a plan to carry out the terrorist attack using different means or abandoned his planning for a terrorist attack in New Zealand" were it not for our gun regime. 