The attack at Bondi Beach in Australia was all kinds of awful, and we need to understand that this wasn’t just some random massacre. This was the act of a couple of Islamic terrorists who wanted to murder Jews.
In the aftermath, it wasn’t surprising that there were calls for new gun control measures, even though the country had already heavily restricted guns after the Port Arthur massacre. Those laws were supposed to prevent Bondi Beach, but failed to do so.
Meanwhile, some started claiming that the problem was antisemitism in Australia.
Of course, I don’t know how you do much about antisemitism without stomping on people’s right to free speech other than tell them they’re jackwagons for being antisemitic, but apparently, some Australians don’t see it that way. Even if you can, though, how do you take the antisemitism out of the radical Islamists when that is a core part of their entire ideology, which is already frowned upon throughout the world?
But don’t worry. The New Yorker is on the case, and they’re going to break it down for us…only it seems to me that they’re part of the problem.
Why? Because, like many Australian politicians, they’re blind to reality.
Gun reform is the exception that proves the rule. The laws that Howard pushed through in the nineties, after Port Arthur, were a rare instance when his conviction happened to coincide with the wishes of the majority, and his staunchness resulted in change that benefitted all Australians. Howard was buoyed by the support of his traditional political opponents, the Labor Party. The shooting was one of the largest news events in Australian media history, and in the deluge of letters to the editor and in radio interviews, support for reforms was almost universal. The laws allowed the victims, and the nation, to move forward. As the Tasmanian gun-reform advocate Roland Browne told me, “They were just very important for people in coming to terms with the grief and sorrow they experienced after that kind of event. To see that there was light at the end of the tunnel, knowing that something like that was hopefully not going to happen again.”
In other words, the post-Port Arthur laws worked.
Except that there’s not really any evidence of that provided.
See, what you need to understand about gun control laws is that if they’re going to work, there has to be a noticeable decline following them that isn’t due to some other factor.
For most of the world, the evidence provided for these laws working was simply that there hadn’t been another Port Arthur massacre. Yet there hadn’t been anything on the scale of Port Arthur previously. While there had been public mass killings with a firearm previously, all of them were relatively small in scale…and they continued in the aftermath of Port Arthur, the earliest happening the next year when three people were killed at a nightclub in what was termed a gang shooting.
The antisemitism throughout the West has been a major problem, particularly because some people seem to be perfectly fine with Hamas slaughtering innocent men, women, and children in a sneak attack against Israel; they seem to believe that Israel should just accept the bloodshed. They hate Israel and, by extension, Jews so badly that they cannot fathom that the terrorists are actually the baddies here.
But it’s not the totality of the issue here.
Part of the issue is that innocent Australians were disarmed, continue to be disarmed, and all because of a singular attack that was now proven can be replicated with far different weapons, and rather than accept that the gun control everyone swore kept them safe did no such thing, they’re tripping over themselves lying about it and arguing whether bigotry is the problem or if they just didn’t restrict guns enough, without acknowledging that what they tried didn’t work worth a damn, that those victims at Bondi Beach were disarmed and thus unable to fight back as effectively as they should have been able to, and that everything they’ve believed needs to be reevaluated.
And The New Yorker just uncritically accepts that it worked.
I’m not surprised, just disappointed.
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