The PM rightly received applause for our ban on semi-automatic weapons yesterday. Back home, police did not answer a question about gangs stockpiling guns.
Thank you for your excellent coverage about the need for a gun register in NZ. It's shocking that we don't have a comprehensive one (there is one for pistols only), given how many lives it could save. I think NZ needs to wake up to the dangers the 1.2+ million guns in NZ represent, 2.5 more guns per capita than in Australia. I welcome more coverage about this issue--and legislation-- before we have another mass shooting. Years ago I joined Gun Control NZ.org--it's one small thing we can do.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. In British English it is perfectly grammatical to say "(collective noun) are rubbish". The Board are rubbish. etc. It is a standard construction that is universally accepted as correct.
Your editor and your moronic Australian journo friend need to stop reading American style guides and start learning the actual language they purport to be experts in: English.
Thank you for your excellent coverage about the need for a gun register in NZ. It's shocking that we don't have a comprehensive one (there is one for pistols only), given how many lives it could save. I think NZ needs to wake up to the dangers the 1.2+ million guns in NZ represent, 2.5 more guns per capita than in Australia. I welcome more coverage about this issue--and legislation-- before we have another mass shooting. Years ago I joined Gun Control NZ.org--it's one small thing we can do.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. In British English it is perfectly grammatical to say "(collective noun) are rubbish". The Board are rubbish. etc. It is a standard construction that is universally accepted as correct.
Your editor and your moronic Australian journo friend need to stop reading American style guides and start learning the actual language they purport to be experts in: English.