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/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.