Well, they went ahead and did it: New Zealand Parliament votes 119-1 to ban assault weapons
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304415/n...eapons-ban
With only one vote against (funny, I didn’t think Mitch McConnell was allowed to vote in NZ’s parliament
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The New Zealand government has already expressed that this is just a first step and that they’ll fine-tune it while closing several loopholes in their existing statutes.
We know by bitter experience that “thoughts and prayers” don’t work. Let’s observe how NZ’s approach does in real time.
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304415/n...eapons-ban
With only one vote against (funny, I didn’t think Mitch McConnell was allowed to vote in NZ’s parliament
) The New Zealand government has already expressed that this is just a first step and that they’ll fine-tune it while closing several loopholes in their existing statutes.
We know by bitter experience that “thoughts and prayers” don’t work. Let’s observe how NZ’s approach does in real time.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg