Winston Peters has used his time in Parliament, during which party leaders were taking turns to express sympathy with the Orlando shooting victims, to blame the attack on “loose security and border controls”. The New Zealand First leader stood up before Question Time and mentioned that Omar Mateen’s parents were from Afghanistan. “There are those who will take the politically correct view and blame it all on a lack of gun control,” he said. “They are wrong. They have been misled. They are seeking to divert blame from where it should lie.” “In short … we are inviting that problem in our country by the looseness and the cavalier attitude we are taking as a country to matters of security,” he said. The New Zealand Government has increased the refugee quota from 750 people per year to 1000 per year.
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First published: Wednesday, 15th June 2016 - 11:08am