Perhaps there’s something else that needs to be controlled and banned
For almost three decades, Australia’s gun laws have been recognised as among the most stringent – and effective – in the world.
After the horror of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre that killed 35 people in Tasmania, Australia’s then conservative government stared down the gun lobby to introduce restrictions that led to a dramatic decrease in the number of guns.
In an almost unprecedented display of national collaboration, the federal government worked with the states to restrict semiautomatic weapons, toughen up licensing requirements and introduce a new requirement for gun holders to demonstrate a “genuine reason” for ownership.
Australians have been rightly proud of these reforms, confident that the community remains relatively safe from gun violence and far from the American reality of frequent mass shootings.
Sunday’s Bondi attack will shake that confidence and may force the country to again grapple with its gun laws.
Police confirmed on Monday morning that one of the alleged shooters was a registered gun owner and had six legally obtained firearms.
There has been growing concern among gun control advocates that firearms remain far too easy to access despite the country’s “gold standard” framework.
Of course they want more gun control, despite there being massive bans. But, nothing about Islamist control
Khaled al-Nablusi, an immigrant from an Islamist nation who was apparently a radical was given a permit for 6 firearms. How hard would it be for an Aussie citizen to get that same permit? Of course, the Aussie government seems to like to bring in unvetted Islamists from around the world and treat them better than actual citizens.
Shooting at Bondi Beach is what a globalized intifada looks like – analysis
All those wondering what the slogan “globalize the intifada” means need look no further than Bondi Beach.
Terrorists calmly firing into a crowd at a Hanukkah celebration. Screams. Panic. Parents fleeing with hysterical children. Victims lying dead on the sand.
That is the “globalized intifada” that tens of thousands of people around the world have been chanting for since the October 7 massacre – on the streets of Sydney, San Francisco, London, New York, and elsewhere – including by political figures who either embraced the phrase or refused to condemn it.
It’s well worth reading the whole thing.
There were armed police officers on site, but they hid rather than return fire.
It will be noted that the officers were women, but Scot Peterson, the coward of Broward, and the Uvalde cops were
menmales, and they too hid, when kids were under fire.I recommend the woodchipper protocol for these two. But you know Australia doesn’t have the spine for it.
Note too, that the hero who wrested the gun from Sajid Akram, 50, was 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed, a local Muslim shop owner. Mr Al Ahmed was also shot twice but is recovering in the hospital. Police killed Sajid Akram, 50. His son Naveed Akram, 24, was shot and is in critical condition.
Yes, Australia SHOULD investigate how the murderous Sajid Akram obtained the firearms.
Recall that the Aussies enacted their strict gun control laws after a deranged white guy, Martin Bryant, using his Colt AR-15, murdered 35 children, women and men at Port Arthur in 1996. Rather than banning white guys, they banned many, but not all, firearms.
In 2019, just across the way in New Zealand, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a white Aussie, killed 51 injuring and 40 at two mosques in Christchurch: Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre. Tarrant was a white supremacist and a Muslim-hater who whined about the Great Replacement.
And don’t forget that in 2011, white supremacist, neo-nazi, incel and Islamophobe, Anders Behring Breivik killed over 75 (nearly half were under 18) at a camp in Norway. “He who saves his country, violates no law!”, he claimed. He converted to MAGAtism and Putinism while in prison.
Should governments monitor Islamists AND white supremacists?
Islamophobe William claimed, without evidence, that the Australians permit “Islamists” to possess firearms not available to white Aussies.
Is Mr Dowd correct?
I don’t have a credentialed media source for this, but I have heard that he was a Lebanese Christian.
According to USA Today: “The man, a Muslim father named Ahmed al Ahmed, is now being lauded as a hero by the Bondi Beach community, the Australian government and international leaders.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/12/15/who-is-bondi-beach-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed/87778921007/
from the Guardian: “Lubaba Alhmidi AlKahil, the media director for the Australians for Syria Association, visited Ahmed on Monday afternoon to deliver a tray of food and a bouquet of flowers.
“As Muslims, every time there’s an attack we say to ourselves, oh no, people will say it’s Muslims that are bad,” she said. “We are scared to leave our houses if we’ll be accused.
“But our religion is a religion of peace and we are very peaceful people. This proves that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/15/man-who-tackled-alleged-bondi-gunman-couldnt-bear-to-see-people-dying-cousin-says-ntwnfb
But they could be wrong. Who told you he was a Lebanese Christian?
Anyway, the radical islamists are like our own radical fundamentalists (clinic bombers).
The pro-prenatal infanticide Mr Dowd wrote:
Hardly. The abortuary bombings and arsons have almost entirely been attempts to destroy those “clinics” when they were empty, when they were closed, while the Islamists have deliberately targeted people for killing.
Dr George Tiller was unavailable for comment.
Tell us, Dana, are the clinic bombers christians?
The anti-gun crowd has always focused on the symptoms while ignoring/denying the cause. God forbid Australia should ever admit the problem is that they allowed Muslims into their country.
The mass murders in the U.S. are almost all committed by white christians.
Athough the U.S. is by far #1 in mass shootings, our gun-worshipping brethren downplay the seriousness of mass shootings since only some 0.2% to 0.5% of violent deaths come from the shootings.
The U.S. right is only interested if the perp is Muslim, black, gay, trans etc.
wrong, n^^^^r
What is “n^^^^r”?
The criminal-excusing Mr Dowd wrote:
If they were actually Christians, they wouldn’t be committing murders at all.
However, while your statement is technically accurate that “mass murders” in the US are far more likely to be committed by while males, limiting it to “mass murders” ignores the fact that blacks are far, far, far more likely to commit murder; it’s just that they are less likely to commit mass murder, which has been described as murders of three, or sometimes four, or more people in a single incident. Black Americans are far more likely to kill two or fewer people in a single incident.
In 2019, 51.2% of all murderers arrested in the United States were black, even though blacks make up only about 13% of our population.
Of course, you already knew all of that, the trends at the very least, if not necessarily the statistics. And I’m pretty sure that you knew I’d look up the statistics, because that’s what I do.
That’s the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. Look it up! “True christians don’t commit crimes!!” Were the Catholic priests christians when they were abusing children?
He even says, seriously, “your statement is technically accurate”! LOL. What more does he want?
Then, the always slippery Dana changes the subject from mass shootings to street crimes.
If some of the targeted people had pistols, fewer people would have died.
Even if the perps weren’t hit, it would have disrupted their attack, giving the local cops time to man up.
Exactly!! That’s why we’re trying to allow school kids to carry sidearms!!
Talk about a logical fallacy … equating school children with adults out in public exercising their right to self defense.
First, name one place that is trying to allow school kids to carry firearms. I suspect that is nothing but a lie. (And no, adult college students on campuses does not count. You said kids. School kids, implying in a public school environment.)
Rimjob pulls that shit all the time.
“Fake news: media reports mass shooting in Australia but that’s impossible because guns are illegal there”.
BB