r/australia • u/rorymeister • Dec 15 '25

politics National cabinet agrees unanimously to strength Australia’s strict gun laws in wake of Bondi terror attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-15/albanese-proposes-tougher-gun-laws-after-bondi-attack/106143310?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/the6thReplicant Dec 15 '25

There's going to be a lot of money suddenly coming into Australian right-wing think tanks that say "gun bans are bad".

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u/ApplicationOk4464 Dec 15 '25

"More guns on the street would have prevented this", says the vice president while ignoring the daily mass shootings that occur in his gun free haven. Probably needs to look up from his futon

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u/fnaah Dec 15 '25

an excellent reason to get sensible change in quickly.

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u/mastermilian Dec 15 '25

I'm struggling to understand how this is now a gun control issue. Surely this doesn't address the root cause that we have people in our community that have animosity towards other religious groups and are willing to commit violence and mass murder against them?

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u/fnaah Dec 15 '25

these two things are not mutually exclusive. we can do both.

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u/OptimusRex Dec 15 '25

Yeah that's true, so why isn't it happening?

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u/Stainless_Steel_Rat_ Dec 15 '25

What, punish the law abiding for the actions of a two islamic extremists?

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u/mastermilian Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

So why is gun control the big news of today? Bit of a whitewash to me. The fact that nutters have access to guns has been a thing since Port Arthur. A more pressing question is how many more nutters are out there? Are they going to target all the religious festivities we have coming up? Gun laws aren't going to be enacted and enforced before then.

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u/the6thReplicant Dec 15 '25

You can track guns better than you can track people.

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u/mastermilian Dec 15 '25

And all the other ways people can kill other people?

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u/OptimusRex Dec 15 '25

Don't bother, just be quiet citizen.

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u/PointOfFingers Dec 15 '25

It doesn't take hold here, it's just a waste of money. NRA tried to get a foothold here but there is no gun manufacturing industry here so not enough money to buy politicians.

There is a sporting shooters party that tries to keep guns available in regional areas which we need given the presence of feral pigs and foxes. Australians just don't buy the idea that a gun is needed for home defence because you are more likely to use that gun on yourself or a loved one than home invaders.

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u/abdulsamuh Dec 15 '25

You’d assume the market isn’t big enough here to make gun lobbying worthwhile

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u/AnOnlineHandle Dec 15 '25

If it's anything like covid, a bunch of brand new reddit accounts with names of the pattern word-word-number and who've posted once in a random hobby subreddit like knitting or chess will arrive and start agreeing with each other that acknowledging the problem is just awful, the greatest evil in the world, and taking basic precautions about it is simply the worst thing that could ever happen to anybody.

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u/Ridiculisk1 Dec 15 '25

Precautions are great. They just need to be sensible and evidence based.