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We're taking you to New Zealand right now, as the South Pacific nation mourns 50 people who were killed in a shooting at two mosques¹ last week. The country's prime minister said on Thursday that major changes were ahead concerning the country's gun laws.

JACINDA ARDERN, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND: Today I'm announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons. We will also ban all assault rifles. We will ban all high capacity magazines. In short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country.

AZUZ: Prime Minister Ardern said the new laws would make her country safer and that she hoped they'd be in place by April 11th. New Zealand police estimate that there are 1.2 million guns in the country, roughly one for every four people. Not every kind will be banned. Some classes of firearms used in hunting, farming and pest control will still be allowed. But many New Zealanders have legally bought the kinds of guns that are now illegal and the government's planning a buy back program to pay them when they turn in their guns.

New Zealand's police association says it supports the new law, calling the government courageous² for acting³ to ban the weapons but not everyone is on board. A hunting business owner interviewed by NPR says the ban will effect part of his livelihood⁴ and that it's a disappointment to penalize⁵ hundreds of thousands of gun owners for what one person did. Today, one week after the attack, New Zealand is holding what its prime minister calls a nationwide reflection for the dead.

1 mosques   

清真寺； 伊斯兰教寺院，清真寺； 清真寺，伊斯兰教寺院( mosque的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下？
• The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺，过去年久失修，现在已经修复。

2 courageous   

adj.勇敢的，有胆量的

参考例句：

• We all honour courageous people.我们都尊重勇敢的人。
• He was roused to action by courageous words.豪言壮语促使他奋起行动。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 livelihood   

n.生计，谋生之道

参考例句：

• Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
• My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。

5 penalize   

vt.对…处以刑罚，宣告…有罪；处罚

参考例句：

• It would be unfair to penalize those without a job.失业人员待遇低下是不公平的。
• The association decided not to penalize you for the race.赛马协会决定对你不予处罚。