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Former PM Helen Clark: NZ must ban semi-automatic weapons

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Publish Date
Sun, 12 May 2019, 12:02PM
The former Prime Minister has backed Jacinda Ardern's calls to toughen gun laws. (Photo / AP)

Former PM Helen Clark: NZ must ban semi-automatic weapons

Author
Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Sun, 12 May 2019, 12:02PM

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark backs Jacinda Ardern's assertion our gun laws will change.

She told Jack Tame our Parliament has to act and support the Prime Minister in this.

"How can people like these killers be able to have five guns, to legally have five guns? Why do we allow semi automatics? What is sporting, hunting or recreational about semi automatics?"

Clark says that when John Howard was Australian Prime Minister and faced a mass shooting, he took legislation to Parliament and tightened their laws.

"We need gun laws at least as tough as Australia." 

She is also asking social media platforms how they allowed the suspect to post publicly as much as he did- including hate speech and a live-stream of his heinous act.

"Facebook claimed they'd taken down the video hours ago. I've been contacted in just the last hour by people who say they found it just now on Facebook, so what is going on."

Clark says these people have algorithms to chase us whenever we express an preference, so why don't they have algorithms to get hate speech and violence off their platforms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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