New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said arming business owners is not the answer to the recent spate of crimes the small island nation is currently experiencing, including ram raids by youth offenders, gang violence and shootings, and stabbings.
Dairy and Business Association Chair Sunny Kaushal said the government needed to acknowledge how serious the situation had become.
“A sense of lawlessness is now gripping all of New Zealand, and the soft on crime approach is not working,” he told Newshub.
“We are calling the prime minister to declare a crime emergency in New Zealand. It is that serious.”
Kaushal said many small businesses were hiring their own security, with many going to him for advice on how to get a gun….