New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern responds to Texas school shooting

Prime minister says after 2019 Christchurch massacre, country made a pragmatic' decision to get guns off streets: We saw something that wasn't right and we acted'

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New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern says her country's swift change to gun laws after the 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch was a pragmatic" response, where we saw something that wasn't right and we acted on it".

The prime minister was speaking as her visit to the United States coincided with the mass killing of 19 children at a school in Uvalde, Texas.

Ardern appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was filmed shortly after the Uvalde shooting. When I watch from afar and see events such as this today, it's not as a politician. I see them just as a mother," an emotional Ardern said. I'm so sorry for what has happened here."