That's the framework against which I assess this Government's response to our nation's tragedy in Christchurch on 15 March last year, and how have they gone? Well, when we assess a policy, we might ask ourselves three questions: what is the intent of the policy, what's it supposed to do? Number two, is it effective at achieving that goal? And, number three, what are the side effects of that policy being implemented? The intention, according to the Minister of Police, is to stop bad people getting firearms, and I think we might surmise that beneath that, it is to keep New Zealanders safe. I would add that New Zealand needed something else in the wake of our nation's tragedy, and that was unity, to actually be united as a country against the terror that tried to divide us.