The shooting at Bondi Beach, a suburb of Sydney, has a lot of people rattled, and not without some reason. It was a brutal attack that was far worse than many we’ve seen here in the United States, which involved the evil and vicious AR-15, which some people seem to miss. Regardless, it was a bad shooting by any metric you care to use.
Yet Australia has a ton of gun control laws on the books. They passed them in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, and a lot of people here have pointed to them and said we need those same laws.
But that didn’t stop what happened. So, instead of recognizing that gun control doesn’t stop evil people, the prime minister is looking to push for still more gun control.
The Australian government is “prepared to take whatever action is necessary,” after a shooting that left 15 people dead and more than 40 injured at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during a press conference on Monday.
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Albanese said he planned to “put on the agenda of the national cabinet tougher gun laws,” with details to include “the number of guns that can be used or licensed by individuals” and whether or not licenses for guns should be reviewed after a period of time, he added.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said in a separate press conference that he believes it’s time for a “change to the law in relation to firearms legislation in New South Wales.”
The alleged shooters were father and son, aged 50 and 24, officials said during a news conference. The father was killed and the son is hospitalized with unspecified injuries, according to officials. Their names were not released.
NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed there is a 24-year-old male who is in the hospital at the moment and will likely face criminal charges.
Six guns were recovered from the scene, and officials have confirmed that the father had a license for six firearms.
Also found at the scene were two improvised explosive devices, which I’m pretty sure aren’t legal at all in Australia. Those were rendered safe by the bomb squad there, but they could well have been as big an issue as the shooting, if not bigger.
Still, it’s unsurprising that Albanese is looking to push for more gun control. If they didn’t, he would have to answer for how the laws failed, and it’s just easier to pretend they weren’t extensive enough than to admit that the whole thing was a waste of time and resources.
The problem here was that these two were Islamic terrorists who killed their targets because they were Jewish. That’s the issue here, not the guns. If they had the ability to make IEDs, then why would we believe they wouldn’t have pivoted to killing these same people with explosive devices instead?
It’s insane.
Yet here we are, and because Australia has no version of the Second Amendment to protect the right of lawful gun owners, we’re likely to see some outright stupidity taking hold in the wake of this awful shooting.
Editor’s Note: The radical left, be it American or Australian, will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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