Jacinda Ardern’s reaction

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Tess McClure “New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern responds to Texas school shooting” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/25/we-saw-something-that-wasnt-right-and-we-acted-ardern-on-how-new-zealand-delivered-gun-control


訪米中のジャシンダ・アーダーン新西蘭首相*2CBSThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert*3に出演し、テクサス州ユヴァルディ市の小学校で起きた銃乱射事件についてコメントした。


Ardern appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was filmed shortly after the Uvalde shooting. “When I watch from afar and see events such as this today, it’s not as a politician. I see them just as a mother,” an emotional Ardern said. “I’m so sorry for what has happened here.”

Colbert referred to the aftermath of the 15 March 2019 mosque shootings, where 51 people were killed by a white supremacist, saying: “Immediately thereafter the New Zealand parliament took action to remove guns from the streets.”

He asked: “Why New Zealand was able to do that, when we can’t so much as pass universal background checks … how did New Zealanders get that done?”

Ardern said New Zealanders are “a very pragmatic people”.

“We saw something that wasn’t right and we acted on it, and I can only speak to that experience,” she said.

“When we saw something like that happen, everyone said never again, and so it was incumbent on us as politicians to respond to that.

“Now, we have legitimate needs for guns in our country, for things like pest control and to protect our biodiversity – but you don’t need a military-style semi-automatic to do that.”

新西蘭では、2019年3月にクライストチャーチでモスク2箇所が襲撃され50名近くの人が虐殺される事件*4が起きた直後、銃規制が強化され、半自動式の武器や突撃銃をほぼ完全に禁止する法案が殆ど全会一致で可決された*5