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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t we be more like New Zealand? It just took one shooting for that country.[/quote]

NZ's parliament is a single chamber, not two like the US. Sometimes it is called "the fastest law in the west", because the governing party can generally push through whatever it wants. That meant they could react quickly after the Christchurch shooting. It also meant that they could impose regulations that kept a majority of NZ expat citizens out their own country for nearly two years.

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Or Australia.  Or Scotland.  Americans would rather have guns than keep kids safe.

Take the school shooting in Dunblane in Scotland in 1996 - and I deliberately say THE school shooting, as there hasn't been a repeat incident. Seeing 16 elementary school children shot so horrified the nation that within a year both sides were able to come together to agree some common-sense gun laws that permitted hobbyists to enjoy hunting while depriving the streets of massive quantities of hand guns. There's a good summary of it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1996-dunblane-massacre-pushed-uk-enact-stricter-gun-laws-180977221/
It isn't perfect, but it means that parents don't fear for their children's lives at school. [/quote]

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