How New Zealand Banned Assault Rifles in Six Days
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. |
| 0:02.1 | This is The Daily. |
| 0:09.3 | Today, the Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| 0:12.1 | promised to change the country's gun laws |
| 0:14.8 | after a mass shooting last Friday. |
| 0:18.2 | Less than a week later, she actually did it. |
| 0:21.8 | It's Friday, March 22. |
| 0:28.8 | Jamie, in the immediate aftermath of the Moscow tax in New Zealand, |
| 0:31.8 | what was the response from the country's Prime Minister? |
| 0:34.8 | Just until Adon came out and had a very sort of hastily arranged press briefing. |
| 0:39.8 | Sorry, let's go straight to the Prime Minister. |
| 0:42.8 | Just until Adon, speaking now. |
| 0:44.8 | And, I'm going to say, |
| 0:47.8 | the first words were a complete and utter denouncement of what had happened. |
| 0:56.8 | There is no place in New Zealand for such acts of extreme and unprecedented violence, |
| 1:02.8 | which is it is clear this act was. |
| 1:05.8 | She was very striking. |
| 1:07.8 | Many of those who will have been directly affected by this shooting may be migrants to New Zealand. |
| 1:13.8 | They may even be refugees here. |
| 1:16.8 | They may have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home. |
| 1:21.8 | She said they are us. |
| 1:23.8 | The person who has perpetuated this violence against us is not. |
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