Gun control
Never again
New Zealand’s parliament bans semi-automatic rifles
Attempts to 1.__________New Zealand’s gun-control laws have failed in parliament four times over the past 20 years. That was before a white supremacist laid siege to two mosques in the city of Christchurch on March 15th, killing 50 people. This week a 2.__________to ban the kind of high-powered semi-automatic weapons that he used was introduced; every 3.__________but one supports it. It should sail into law in days.
New Zealand has one of the world’s highest rates of 4.__________5.__________, with 26 guns per 100 people. That puts it 20th out of the 230 countries and 6.__________ranked by the Small Arms 7.__________, a research institute. Despite this, it ranks only 172nd out of 195 countries in terms of deaths per person from firearms, according to data from the University of Washington. Total killings with guns are typically in the single 8.__________each year, out of a population of 4.8m.
The already low rate of killings with guns is one reason why it will be hard to discern the new law’s 9.__________. Australia adopted similar legislationin 1996 after a 10.__________11.__________in the state of Tasmania. The Australian government banned semi-automatic rifles, created a national gun 12.__________and bought firearms from citizens, as New Zealand 13.__________to. The stock of 14.__________guns fell by about a third.
Firearm-related 15.__________ and homicides fell after the legislation passed. But firearm deaths had already been falling before 1996, and the pace did not notably accelerate. Moreover, gunviolencewas 16.__________in many other rich countries, few of which had adopted 17.__________gun laws.
Australia’s gun 18.__________almost entirely eliminated mass shootings. Between 1980 and 1996 there were 13 incidents in which five or more 19.__________were shot to death. There has been just one since. But until Christchurch, New Zealand had not seen any mass shootings in over 20 years, despite the many semi-automatic rifles.
This suggests that social 20.__________have been New Zealand’s best defence against mass shootings. But as Philip Alpers of the University of Sydney notes, the killer in Christchurch would simply not have been able to buy such deadly weapons in his home country, Australia. Gun control
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