Glowing New York Times editorial says 'America deserves a leader as good as Jacinda Ardern'

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12215416

Glowing New York Times editorial says 'America deserves a leader as good as Jacinda Ardern'

22 Mar, 2019 4:59pm

A glowing editorial in the New York Times has heaped praise on the way Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has handled the fallout from the shocking events of last week in Christchurch.

In the wake of last Friday's terror attack on two Christchurch mosques which killed 50 people, the actions of Ardern in moving to ban semi-automatic guns and her sympathetic response to the Muslim community has garnered worldwide attention.

The Times editorial entitled 'America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern' said "the world should learn from the way Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, has responded to the horror".

In particular, Ardern's handling of the issues around gun control have struck a chord with the newspaper's editorial board.

"Ardern listened to her constituents' outrage and declared that within days her government would introduce new controls on the military-style weapons that the Christchurch shooter and many of the mass killers in the United States have used on their rampages," the editorial said. "And she delivered ... 'It's about all of us,' she said, 'it's in the national interest and it's about safety'."

The editorial also praised Ardern for the measured response to social media concerns after the video of the accused gunman's rampage appeared live on Facebook and other outlets.
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[riversedge]

1. Only Trump fans deserve vile Trump

[democratisphere]

2. Jacinda Adern has done an exemplary job of handling everything

associated with the massacre in New Zealand. She is the kind of leader America can only hope for someday. drumpf and his redrumpfliCON lemming followers, that enable this disastrous kind of event, must be removed from power in all branches of government if we are to ever have a leader like Adern.

[red dog 1]

9. + 1

[beachbum bob]

3. america deserves trump, we made it happen

[raccoon]

4. Trump voters and Russian interference made it happen. Nt

[beachbum bob]

5. disagree, stein voters and those who would not "vote for lesser of 2 evils", the ones who knew

better and still said screw america. trump voters were voting for trump regardless...it was the extreme left that left america with trump. We saw the speel here in DU for months before the election, I heard the speel among my more liberal friends and now we got what we got...

and who are the biggest complainers? The ones who left hillary off their ballot

[raccoon]

8. Well, Im not included in your 'we'. nt

[JI7]

12. Stein voters are pretty much Trump Supporters

[CDerekGo]

6. We can only hope

We certainly can only hope that 2020 Elections will be a HUGE BLUE WAVE. Now, we all have to come together as a Nation, a Nation that's been divided by hate for way too many decades, find a way to heal, and move forward as a Nation.

[world wide wally]

7. And the US still has to suffer through fucking Trump.

I want to move to New Zealand. It's been a fantasy of mine for almost 3 years now.

[red dog 1]

10. K&R

We deserve it, but will we get it?

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11. K&R