I hesitate to bring up the case of firearm laws today in this debate, but, unfortunately, the Prime Minister chose to make a number of political points about them. The sad truth is that the Government's response was ineffective, divisive, and—without the benefit of this royal commission of inquiry report—premature, and one only has to look at the fact that the Government banned around a quarter-million firearms and collected 60,000. How does that help keep New Zealanders safer? 