112 Unit 07 | You be the judge On 15 March 2019, a white supremacist from Australia attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, using military-style weapons and killing 51 Muslim worshippers. In her memoir A Different Kind of Power, Jacinda Ardern – who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023 – describes how the country responded to this tragedy and introduced new gun laws. With a partner, speculate about the changes that were made and how long it took to implement them. Read the extract from Jacinda Ardern’s book. Some parts are missing. Choose the correct part from the list (A–K) for each gap (1–8). There are two extra parts that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. READING 23 a b 2 unanimity [ju nE*nImEti]: Zustimmung, Einigkeit The power of positive change The terrorist had acquired his guns legally, and then modified them to make them even more destructive. He wasn’t a citizen. He was a newcomer to New Zealand, having arrived just eighteen months earlier. And yet (0) to use weapons that had been designed with a single purpose: to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. There is no constitutional right to own a gun in New Zealand. But gun ownership isn’t rare. Through the years, (1) . Most either hadn’t gone far or went nowhere at all. But now the unthinkable had happened. I was determined: Our gun laws would change. Seventeen days after the shooting, (2) . Ten days after that, the law banning military style semi-automatic weapons passed with the support of all but one member of Parliament. The law created an amnesty and buyback program, which allowed people who owned the weapons we’d just made illegal to be compensated for turning in their guns. In the first month after the law passed, (3) . These were simple transactions. We created collection points. People brought their banned guns. In exchange, (4) . Then they went home. By the year’s end, 56,000 weapons and nearly 200,000 gun parts would be handed in and destroyed. A gun registration program we introduced later – allowing officials to know how many guns, and of what type, were held by gun owners, which also allowed medical professionals to know if (5) – was also passed in Parliament, but with less unanimity2, which puts the policy at risk of being undone in the future. But we’d acted. We’d done something. And just as important, we’d proved that something can be done. Then, there was also the issue of the video. The shooter had live-streamed the attack on March 15 – a full seventeen minutes of it – before it was stopped. For the first twenty-four hours afterward, the video was shared at a rate of once per second on YouTube, and Facebook removed 1.5 million copies of it. I even stumbled on the video myself, soon after the attack, when (6) . If I had seen it, how many others had? How many still would? And what impact would that have? Within eight weeks we constructed and launched what became known as the Christchurch Call to Action, (7) . As I write, governments, civil society, and major companies – more than 130 of them in all – have joined the Christchurch Call. Because of this, the world has new crisis protocols, tools and policies that exist today that didn’t before the attacks on March 15. These range from a global crisis response system to stop the spread of live-streamed attacks, controls on live streaming established by tech platforms, and investment in new tools to help researchers understand the influence of algorithms and how people are radicalized online. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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