New Zealand Citizens Open To Gun Reform After Massacre
Source: Talking Points Memo/The AP
By STEPHEN WRIGHT and KRISTEN GELINEAU
March 17, 2019 9:16 am
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) The New Zealand leaders promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.
Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern said her Cabinet will consider the details of the changes on Monday. She has said options include a ban on private ownership of semi-automatic rifles that were used with devastating effect in Christchurch and a government-funded buyback of newly outlawed guns.
While curtailing gun owners rights is a political battleground in the United States, Christchurch gun owner Max Roberts, 22, predicted Ardern wont face serious opposition to her agenda.
There will be no opposition to it. Theres no movement in New Zealand for that. Our media and politics are more left wing, said Roberts, a carpenter who uses guns for hunting.
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cstanleytech
(26,286 posts)DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)A couple dozen dead toddlers can't even get our gun junkies off their drug of choice because here in the USA we love our guns more than we love our children. If not, someone would surely have done something about this carnage by now.
Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)"There is a dimming of enlightenment in many parts of the world," he said.
"How can it be right for this atrocity to be filmed by the murderer using a go-pro and live-streamed across the world by social media companies?
"How can that be right? Who should be held accountable for that?"
NZ Attorny General
Legrant
(27 posts)meadowlander
(4,394 posts)A number of people are already surrendering their semi-automatic weapons to the police:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213947
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Christchurch attack: Jacinda Ardern says cabinet has agreed 'in principle' gun reform
Eleanor Ainge Roy in Christchurch
Mon 18 Mar 2019 06.19 GMT First published on Mon 18 Mar 2019 06.00 GMT
Jacinda Ardern has said her cabinet is completely unified in reforming gun legislation in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack but emerged from a meeting with ministers without concrete proposals to change firearms laws.
The New Zealand prime minister had been expected to announce measures such as a ban on semi-automatic rifles, a plan that was flagged by her attorney general, David Parker, one day after the massacre in which 50 people have died.
However, after emerging from a long cabinet meeting Ardern said her team would take the rest of the week to work out the details after agreeing to make changes in principle. The agreement had been reached just 72 hours after the attack, she said, comparing her response time to that of the Australian government after the Port Arthur massacre. These arent simple areas of law. So thats simply what well be taking the time to get right, she said.
Hours before Arderns appearance, the countrys biggest online auction site, TradeMe, banned semi-automatics and associated accessories, saying it is clear public sentiment has changed.
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She urged gun owners to hand in their weapons, and advised anyone considering buying a gun to wait a few days to get some certainty around the laws before investing.
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nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Live: PM Jacinda Ardern to announce details on gun reform within 10 days, announces review into agencies' actions
18 Mar, 2019 5:50pm
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to unveil gun law reforms within 10 days and announced a review into security agencies after the mosque shootings.
She has also called on gun owners to surrender their weapons to police in the aftermath of New Zealand's worst ever terrorist incident.
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Cabinet met today and had made an in-principle decision about changes to gun laws.
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Hunting & Fishing New Zealand also confirmed today it was pulling all "military-style" semi-automatic firearms from sale nationwide in the aftermath of the Christchurch attacks. Chief executive Darren Jacobs said the company broadly supported tighter gun controls in New Zealand.
Ardern also confirmed there would be a review of security agencies' actions in the wake of the shooting. It would look at what they knew, or should have known, and whether there were any blocks to information-sharing.
The review would also probe accused gunman Brenton Tarrant's travel and use of social media.
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