For the last week, we’ve written a lot about Australia and Bondi Beach. There’s no doubt that what happened was beyond awful, and there’s no doubt that an anti-gun nation would simply double down on gun control, which is precisely what happened.
Even before the bodies were cold, the government called for more gun control. No one really knew all that much about what happened, where the guns came from, or anything else, but the calls came just the same.
It wasn’t much different from what it is here after some tragedy, only lawmakers there have no Second Amendment to keep them in check and the populace largely agrees with what those lawmakers want.
But not every Australian is like that.
Australian conservative journalist Fred Pawle isn’t. In fact, he’s actually talking sense.
“The day that changed Australia forever,” the cover of The Weekend Australian’s Inquirer section announced this morning, referring to the mass murder by two Muslims at Bondi last Sunday. And therein lies the problem. Australia didn’t change at all that day, nor has it in the six days since. Or if it has, it is in the same dark direction it was already heading, which is into the black hole that history reserves for nations that have lost the will to survive.
Australia stands at a historic juncture. In one direction we summon the courage to save our precious country, for which future generations will be eternally grateful. In the other, we introduce more ineffective “hate speech” laws, spout platitudes about “tolerance” and resist the urge to be angry, let alone fight back, in response to a barbaric attack on our very heart and soul. For this, only our adversaries will be grateful.
It seems increasingly likely that we will choose the latter path. The adversaries who benefit most from this will be either the founders of a homegrown Islamic caliphate, who have already established strong footholds in all our capital cities, or the leaders of the People’s Liberation Army of China, who have been laughing at our insipidness all week, and dramatically reducing the level of firepower they estimate would be necessary to roll over this resource-rich continent of ours. Continue in this cowardly direction for much longer, however, and our new overlords could just as easily be a tribe of Papua New Guineans in loin cloths armed with bows and arrows.
The government has already decided which direction it wants to go. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has instructed his senior ministers to flood social media today with the same cut-and-pasted message to distract the masses from the real issue: There are more guns in Australia than there were the last time we took them off you! We’ll buy them back! We are making you safer by ensuring you can’t defend yourselves!
I’m not going to lie, that looks like something an American would write about the push to take away guns from law-abiding citizens. I agree with every bit of the sentiment, too.
Yes, the growing caliphate threat within Australia will be thrilled to know even fewer non-terrorists will have guns. China will be happy to know that one of its richest targets will be even less able to defend itself because the populace will be denied the use of arms–there’s a reason that China keeps trying to push the idea that gun rights are a violation of human rights, even has they have literal slave camps, and it’s not because they really think guns are dangerous to good people.
Australia is going down the wrong road, as Pawle notes.
Being docile and harmless does not make a country safer. Taking away the ability of a people to defend themselves doesn’t make them safer. The evil will always find a way to hurt the innocent. That’s how it’s been since the dawn of humanity. Cain didn’t kill Abel with a gun. He didn’t need one.
Throughout history, those who beat their swords into plowshares end up plowing for those who didn’t.
Australia is, in effect, telling citizens to beat their swords into plowshares, that they can be trusted to keep them safe.
Yet the same government is ignoring the actual threats.
This is the very discussion we have in the United States all the time. Again, though, the difference is that we have the Second Amendment. We have something that serves as a shield for the kind of things that the anti-gunners want, and that Australia is doing. They simply can’t get away with half the stuff they want here, but there’s no such protection down under.
Some day, Australians will find themselves in a position that they’re not going to like. Either the government will cross the line, the growing caliphate will make a move, or China will come ashore, if not some other threat. They’ll be unable to resist. With Chinese aggression, they’ll have to hide behind Australian troops and hope they’re enough to hold the line until the United States and the rest of NATO arrive.
With the other two, well, they’re likely going to be screwed and realize they gave up their freedom for safety, and now they have neither.
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