Jacinda hasn’t just led the country with dignity and compassion, she hasn’t just given us the grace of good conscience and strong words, she has shown real action.
1 week after mass shooting atrocity, Jacinda has banned machine guns – this is what political leadership looks like.
As America struggles with pointless mass shooting after pointless mass shooting, Jacinda changes the gun laws within a week.
Thoughts & prayers are nice. Action and decision are better.
‪Hasn’t every person who claimed Jacinda couldn’t be a mother and lead the country at the same time been shamed by the incredible courage, empathy & fortitude she has shown over the last week – we would be a lesser people right now without her leadership.
As we ban guns, the NZ Police are now routinely wearing them…
…I understand why we need to arm Police, but part of me is horrified at a time when horror seems redefined every day over the past 7 days. Remember when James Shaw being punched had left us breathless?
We didn’t know what breathless was.
The reverberations of atrocity don’t end but thank Allah we have a leader who has the wisdom to lead.
This feels like it’s been the longest week of our lives.
We heard her on RNZ at 3pm yesterday. Her steel was unmissable. This woman is not for turning, that was evident. (And she didn’t have to crush a single car to show her resolve!)
If she carries on like this, she will become one of our best PMs ever.
The globalisation of American fascism is obsequious and does not serve NZ well.
Gun toting Police was unheard o fin NZ and most people even a decade ago would have reviled at the thought.
An now we have it. How did it happen.
Whats next .
too soon i Know and yes she has been amazing and I fully support everthing she has done so far in connection with this terrorist act But before we get carried away and nominate her for sainthood a bit of a reality check. everything she has done so far has been politically easy, emotionally draining but politically easy not even bridges would be dumb enough to speak out againist gun law reform at the moment and the mood of the people at the moment we’d even except the death penalty but real leadership and real steel will come when she takes on the racism & white supremacy in our communities and the zionists in our parliment. sainthood will come when she shows leadership in fixing our childpoverty and homelessness
Approve the death penalty, Dale? Nah, I don’t think so.
Aussie MP Deryn Hinch suggested that on social media, and was utterly shot down by 99% comments opposing it. People may be demanding gun control, but are still rational in their thoughts on how to deal with the alleged offender. We won’t be stampeded into extreme responses.
You’d be surprised Frank. Roughly a 3rd of NZers support the death penalty already according to polls carried out in 2004 and 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_New_Zealand#Abolition_and_its_aftermath:_1961_onwards
If we had enough of these types of events in the country over a relatively short period, that could imo rapidly climb to above 50% – which is why stopping these mass-murders before they happen should always be the priority.
The country has pulled together under her leadership on this solemn occasion. Forget the past or the future, she has governed for the now.
Come on..its ‘easy’ for any half smart non psychopath to look good after a disaster of this scale.
Though personally, I thought announcing the new gun laws on the day/week of the funerals was unfortunate…these days should be all about the victims and their lives..not peoples gun fetishes.
I’m waiting to see the depth of her empathy levels and economic /social policies and solutions for people living their lives on the brink of homelessness, and those pulling out their own rotten teeth.
The way NZ media seems obsessed with comparing Jacinda with Trump is so sad…most of the planet looks good compared to that guy, its a pretty low bar.
The trouble we get is if Jacinda hadn’t acted urgently others would consider her weak. The fact the opposition have backed her proves NOW was her best approach, one I totally agree with, why?, it sends a message.
I heard that John Podesta was here under the radar a week before the event pushing for gun control. Does anyone have more information?
John Podesta is Master of Satanic Ceremonies.
NZ has its representatives.
So pleased that the government passed the gun laws. But a 4000 fine seems pathetic.
Jacinda Ardern has been absolutely stunning in her leadership since that dreadful day one week ago today. She truly is an inspiration.
To those people who have rubbished and continue to rubbish and criticise her your own weakness and insecurities have been highlighted because they show you cannot handle the strength of a young woman who can and does lead.
Jacinda has gone beyond what the last prime minister and the current leader of the national party ever would have done in this situation. She has reached out, sympathised and empathised with the Muslim community. She has conducted herself so marvellously that she has become the personification of what we as a nation should be. She is admired by world leaders for the qualities of a true leader that she displays and displays with true heart.
I am so glad she is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. I am so glad she stands up for what is right. I am so glad she speaks out against those who still express intolerance and distrust of other groups including the Muslim community and those who justify what the non-human did last week when he massacred 50 innocent law abiding citizens of this country and tried to murder the same number. Jacinda will not mention his name and neither should we because to do so gives him a voice and a platform to preach his vile, evil and twisted thoughts.
Dale Frew you raise a good point but I think Jacinda Ardern is aware of and will do something about the white supremacists in this country. The real problem is the nuanced white supremacy that continues to display itself in this country. Look at the position taken by Diocesan College forbidding its students from wearing hijabs. It boasts being a christian school with a corner-stone of inclusion but it acts in completely the opposite way.
Wasn’t it the so-called christians who, under the era of the crusades, murdered, tortured and raped tens of thousands of Muslims? Today, it is the same sanctimonious weak-minded unintelligent individuals who espouse intolerance, distrust and hatred of the Muslim community and justify that hatred by blaming the Muslims for the terrorist acts of the extremists who do not represent the Muslim faith. Luckily, those few people are in the reviled minority.
Quite right YOUNGSUFFRAJET, I can’t believe the brain dead criticism of those few before you. If they were of the left they need a good kick up the arse. They must be happy with the Nasty Nats in charge or they wouldn’t be doing their work for them. Must be Nat trolls to be that stupid. Go Jacinda, NZ turning in the right direction at last.
Hopefully the GCSB/SIS/NZ Police will be a bit more vigilant in the future and concentrate on major problems rather than bothering the general NZ Public with trivial matters.
Hopefully they will start looking into the Asian Crime Syndicates and the NZ Gangs distributing the likes of P to the youth of today.
“1week after mass shooting atrocity, Jacinda has banned machine guns”
No. She hasn’t. Neither the police nor the general public is allowed machine guns. They’ve never been legal here.
Only the military has machine guns.
Yes, I have no problem with supporting this.
Next I expect the same leadership to reduce and abolish poverty, starting with giving people on Supported Living benefits, and those on Jobseeker Support due to illness and disability to be lifted to liveable benefits, similar to the pensions.
Nothing has been done there, people with illness and serious conditions are struggling to survive. Accommodation Supplement increases, and some other increases have led to those most in need having had their TAS and Special Benefit rates reduced.
Reduced doctor’s fees leads to a reduction in Disability Allowance, for those most in need.
WTF is the government doing for those, me included? Nothing so far, empty words about a welfare review, redesigned offices, nicer talk and PR actions, no REAL improvements for those most in need.
Question -Does NZ still have the (genuine) human right of Free Speech?
ie allowed to ask legitimate questions – without being jumped on, and immediately attacked / labelled ?
The answer is….NO.
Left , so-called “Liberal” is heavily equipped with the use of Labels.
(you can list them all by now I’m sure)
Use of Labels to intimidate and silence
=Oppression.
Communism.
Communism killed more than 200 million people last century.
Strange that they never teach that in “history”class .
Is NZ going Full Commie do you think?
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