Opinion: If America valued its citizens like New Zealand, we'd have gun controls

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Opinion: If America valued its citizens like New Zealand, we'd have gun controls
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Opinion: New Zealand is bringing in gun control after one mass shooting. Why don't we value our citizens the same way in America?

10/11A relative shows a picture of Syed Areeb Ahmed, a Pakistani citizen who was killed the Christchurch mosque shooting.A relative looks at a picture on a mobile phone of Pakistani nationals Naeem Rashid and his son Talha Naeem who died in the Christchurch shootings.Meaningful gun laws work, and the world is the evidence. After the 1987 Hungerford mass shooting left 16 dead, England enacted meaningful gun reform. England has experienced one mass shooting since.

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