The proletariat must not be disarmed
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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Wow its like australia is a real country and not solely controlled by a cabal of oil companies, mining companies, arms manufacturers, car companies, finance corporations, and tech bros.
Just the mining companies, mostly.
Disarming all the people who "didn't" shoot up a beach won't bring those victims back, and it won't stop motivated extremists from doing it again. The kind of folks who commit atrocities like this just won't bother participating in the buyback.
I'm curious what kind of indicators might have been present that police or others in the community might have missed; violent rhetoric on social media, a sudden interest in guns by somebody who previously wasn't into them, etc.
We disarmed the UK after two shootings. And restricted certain fertilisers after bombings
Now they just use knives which are a lot less lethal
Wait... Governments can act swiftly and decisively when an issue arises?
I mean if they did the same in america, americans would just buy 10 more guns out of spite.
They’ve done this before and it was hugely successful.
Well, they only got 20% of the guns that time, and the vast majority of them were .22 "pea rifles" and shotguns. In fact only 204 automatic weapons were turned in (for a rate of 1 in 1,000). Also they had about 3.2 million registered firearms before the ban, which reduced to about 2.2 million, only to now be back around 3.2 million, but with a lower % of Aussies owning them.
Also violence was already on the downswing before the buyback, both firearm and non-firearm homicides generally lowered from around '79 on, though while firearm suicides decreased, non-firearm suicides increased.
Don't get me wrong I'm sure the bans effected the rates a little, but not much and they were already decreasing over a decade earlier. It seems that AUS is just not that murderous, and that those who would have shot themselves seem to have just found another way.
Victoria already has some amnesty bins that could be repurposed.
Sure, buy back LEGAL guns from people, so they cant defend themselves against ILLEGAL guns and thugs operating them. There is no logic there, just nonsence and probably greed, so they can sell those guns elsewhere for profit.
Decisions made by retards.
except you're logic fails in the past. The dude with the gun got subdued by the unarmed dude. And in America a bunch of dudes with guns with license to kill didn't stop the killing of children in Uvalde.
The guns used in the attack where legal.
“Legal” is very broad. Was it really according to ALL procedures? Was there insider who let things slip? Were there background checks? You wont know all the details. I stand by what I said. Taking legal guns doesnt fucking help anybody, it only makes it worse.
Legal means legal. It means one of them had permits for the guns. People in Australia have shotguns and rifles for hunting same as everywhere else. You don't need ISIS people inside the administration to get permits. Taking away legal guns used in those attacks would absolutely help.
Why so many down votes ?
Do you guys realize that legal guns cost like $600, and far more than $1000 for sport competitors…?
The gov will be like the best I can do is $20 and a sticker 🏅
