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Bondi beach terror attack: father and son duo allegedly used licensed firearms in shooting
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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Not even close. What I read is that your system failed to stop two terrorists from committing a mass shooting, even though you have some of the strongest gun control in the world.
What that tells me is that guns aren't the issue, the issue is society as a whole. We allowed a genocide of the Palestinian people and now there are people who are using it as a means to retaliate.
Violence is going to happen with or without guns. Mass carnage isn't something new since guns were invented. Humans are violent. The only things we can do to reduce that violence is work on society. The more educated a person is the less likely they're to commit violence. The less a person is in poverty, less likely to commit violence. Just these two things branch into, a lot more solutions to our violence issue than "ban guns".
How many mass shootings has Australia had since 1996?
Way to ignore everything I have posted.
Australia since 1996 has more firearms than before the ban and buy back. Yet has less mass shootings.
So you make that work. More firearms in civ hands than ever, yet less shootings.
Is it the number of guns or some other factor?
"Nobody can ever have guns for any reason" is not what gun control means.
Basically, all you just told me is that their gun control schemes worked. Assuming what you said is even true.
The ends do mean exactly that. This shooting has already spured more gun control which will further remove the ability for a civilian to own any firearm in Australia.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5645002/australia-new-gun-laws-sydney-bondi-shooting
Also the "has more guns than before the ban" is in that article. It's 25% more than before the 96 shooting.
The end goal is complete disarming of the population.
And once again you ignore the rest of what I have stated... because the end for you is no one owning firearms. After that, you'll be there with the UK and their knives ban.
Humans are violent when uneducated and poor. This isn't some bullshit statement. It's Truth. The more we combat both of these globally the less violence there will be.