The New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern described Friday’s massacre as her country’s “darkest day”, after a heavily armed man walked into two mosques in Christchurch and opened fire, killing at least 50 people.
This video shows emotional reactions of victims. Several victims described the pain as too much to bear.
Tightening New Zealand’s gun laws was at the top of Ms Ardern’s agenda as she met with her cabinet on Monday for the first time since the last Friday’s mosque massacre.
“What the public rightly are asking right now is why is it and how is it that you are currently able to buy military style semi-automatic weapons in New Zealand, and that’s the right question to ask,” Ardern told TVNZ.
“There are ways we can bring in affective regulation of firearms that actually target those we need to target and that is our focus.”
‘Emotional responses’
Tipple said he felt no responsibility for the tragedy and refused to say whether he believed gun ownership laws should change in New Zealand.
Ardern has said the attacker used five guns, two of them semi-automatic, which were purchased with an ordinary gun license and modified.