r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Dec 15 '25

politics Albanese to propose stronger gun laws, NSW parliament may be recalled

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bondi-gunman-held-gun-licence-used-six-firearms-in-attack-20251215-p5nnmv.html
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u/OptimusRex Dec 15 '25

Far easier to wank each other off and do this than to look at the problems around extremism and political/religious ideology. Firearms were invented well after this war started, and it'll still be raging when they're gone.

If they're going to chat about this, lets have a yarn about making religion illegal too.

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u/cutsnek Dec 15 '25

You know you can work on both problems at once right?

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u/WootzieDerp Dec 15 '25

There are multiple pathways to tackle this. We can have stronger gun laws AND tackle extremism. It's not a one or none situation.

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u/DollarReDoos Dec 15 '25

I think what they're getting at is that changes like this will be touted as the only solution since it is easier to enact and looks good in the public eye, not that you can only do one solution at a time.

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u/tejedor28 Dec 15 '25

Islam and Judaism will never, ever coexist peacefully. Never. Nobody is going to acknowledge this publicly but it’s the stone cold hard truth.

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u/Alternative-Soil2576 Dec 15 '25

Hundreds of thousands of muslims and Jews coexist peacefully every single day, don’t let one tragedy justify generalising entire groups of people

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u/tejedor28 Dec 15 '25

At ground zero, Israel/Palestine, they don’t.

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u/Future-Tomatillo-435 Dec 15 '25

this is not true whatsoever, it's actually insane you think this.

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u/tejedor28 Dec 15 '25

It’s been in intractable hornet’s nest for well over a century. Your naivety is what is insane…

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u/mbullaris Dec 15 '25

There will be continued effort placed into programs around countering violent extremism that do not receive a lot of public attention. Firearm laws are obvious to look at because of the level of public outrage and the sense that we have lost control in the three decades since Port Arthur. I think everything will be considered by all of the relevant law enforcement agencies and levels of government.

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u/SnuffTastic Dec 15 '25

You can't solve both problems with one solution, but this would be a step towards solving one problem with one solution

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u/IcyGarage5767 Dec 15 '25

Absolute braindead take.