Webb DuncanDr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour—Christchurch Central): Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā. It's with pleasure in some ways that I stand in support of this third reading of this bill but of course with sadness when I reflect upon the tragedy that happened in my hometown and electorate of Christchurch. I don't want to reflect so much on that tragedy as on the change in the conversation that this bill has created because this bill which changes a law which has been outstanding for many years—it's a change that we've known has been needed for many years—could have been a conversation about rights. It could have been a conversation about liberties. But it isn't. It hasn't been that. It's been something quite different. I'm heartened by the fact that we have shifted away from that libertarian narrative of what people's entitlements are and we've changed to look at how communities need to care for each other. This isn't about taking away anyone's rights; it's about this Parliament—and I say Parliament" not "Government"—across the floor moving together to make our communities safer not because someone has rights but because we have duties: duties to each other; duties to care. I say not a "duty of care" but a "duty to care" because it's time we moved away from that legalistic language and recognised that this Parliament and the Government is how we mediate those duties how we talk across party lines across rural lines and city lines across all kinds of divides to reach a consensus about how we create a community which is safe—safe from all kinds of harm. This discussion has been a discussion about how we make our communities safe from firearms which are intrinsically dangerous and in the case of these prohibited firearms absolutely lethal. It's entirely right that the consensus we've struck is to prohibit these semi-automatic weapons because they are tools of violence and only in the most extenuating circumstances should they be permitted. That is the conversation that's been had. But this conversation I hope is the start of a longer conversation about how we can keep our communities safe—how we discharge that duty of care so that not only do we not see our citizens harmed with firearms but we don't see our citizens harmed in other ways either that we see our citizens kept safe from hate in all of its forms. That's a conversation that's going to be difficult a conversation that's going to require a discussion about many of the tools we use in our daily lives including the internet and the information we obtain and we share on that. It's a conversation that's started. It's a conversation that very much needs to continue. But because of the way this has been done I think we can now go back to our communities and our electorates talk to our friends and our families talk to our constituents and implore them to comply with this law and that for every weapon they have which the community has agreed is no longer legal is inappropriate is dangerous and is harmful hand it over. Come and comply with the amnesty scheme. It's absolutely imperative that these weapons are taken out of our communities and that our communities are made safe by it. So to everyone in the Chamber everyone listening let's embark on that conversation. Let's not for a moment abide any suggestion that it's OK in any way for anyone to hang on to any of these weapons. We have made a huge step in making our communities safer. Let's keep on with that important work. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."