{"id":39360,"date":"2019-05-14T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39360"},"modified":"2019-05-14T19:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:25:01","slug":"jacinda-ardern-does-not-understand-why-us-has-failed-to-toughen-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39360","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern &#8216;does not understand&#8217; why US has failed to toughen gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she does &#8220;not understand&#8221; why the United States has not passed stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shooting events. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ahead of a summit on online extremism, Ardern was responding to a question by CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour asking whether countries can learn from New Zealand. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ardern announced a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/29\/asia\/new-zealand-guns-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">military-style semiautomatic<\/a> weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines only days after the March 15 mass shootings on two mosques in Christchurch, which claimed 51 lives. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she does &#8220;not understand&#8221; why the United States has not passed stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shooting events. Ahead of a summit on online extremism, Ardern was responding to a question by CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour asking whether countries can learn from New Zealand. Ardern announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}