It wasn't so long ago that Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was best known for bringing her baby to the UN General Assembly. Wish that were still true today.
Instead, the world is re-learning who Ardern is after 49 people were killed in a white supremacist terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch. We cats were impressed with her calm, her cool, and her immediate declaration that "gun laws will change. Now is the time."
How lucky New Zealand is, not to have a Second Amendment or an NRA.
Meanwhile, here in the US our fearless leader was asked about the rise of white nationalism and whether he thinks it's a problem. After racially and ethnically motivated shootings in a Charleston church, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and now the mosques in New Zealand, Benedict Donald said, "I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."
Yes, very serious problems, and lots and lots and lots of guns. It will take time to work on people's hearts, but the world can start solving the gun problem right now. Take them away. We cats HISS.
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