The prime minister announced an assault weapons ban days after the Christchurch massacre in March.
New Zealand banned semi-automatic and automatic weapons just days after a man used similar firearms to kill 51 people in two Christchurch mosques in March, and the country’s prime minister does “not understand” why the United States hasn’t passed similar gun control laws in the wake of repeated mass shootings on its own soil.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked prime minister Jacinda Ardern what the rest of the world can learn from New Zealand ahead of a summit on online extremism held in Paris on Wednesday, two months to the day of the Christchurch massacre, which was livestreamed on platforms such as Facebook FB, +2.68% Twitter TWTR, +2.60% and YouTube GOOG, +3.35% And Ardern said that while guns have a “practical purpose ... that does not mean you need access to military-style semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles.
‘Australia experienced a massacre and changed their laws. New Zealand had its experience and changed its laws. To be honest, I do not understand the United States.’ Jacinda Ardern Recent shootings at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in a Denver suburb and at UNC Charlotte have kept the gun control debate in the news. Indeed, the U.S.
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