NZ bans types of semi-automatic weapons

New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.

In the immediate aftermath of last Friday's shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, Ardern labeled the attack as terrorism and said New Zealand's gun laws would change.

"On 15 March our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place," Ardern told a new conference.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the New Zealand Parliament will pass sensible gun safety laws in the near future and their beautiful country will be an even more beautiful, safer country because of it. There is no National Terrorist Association to stoke 2nd Amendment Derangement Syndrome in New Zealand; there is just a humane realization that the laws require stricter regulation to avoid a repeat performance. There is no Guns Over People party in New Zealand that is heavily bribed and corrupted to ignore public safety at all costs; there are simply much more rational political actors in New Zealand. So let New Zealand serve as a model of decency, public safety and humanity for all the world to see. And let the United States of Guns serve as a continuing model of indecency, gun violence, inhumanity and right-wing corruption for all the world to see. And remember that when America had its many chances to demonstrate to its 325 million citizens a modicum of human decency about strengthening public safety, the Guns Over People party chose more guns, more gun deaths, more early funerals and 'free-DUMB !'. America.....that shining, homicidal city on a hill !