New Zealand continues its swift response to the Christchurch shootings. This time in the rugby world.

Christchurch.
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The United States has often served as a foil to New Zealand in the wake of the mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch that killed 50 people last month.

For instance, New Zealand received praise from gun control advocates in the U.S. after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government effectively banned ban all military-style semiautomatic weapons in the country. The U.S., meanwhile, has not passed significant gun reform in recent years, despite a high number of mass shootings.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.