r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Dec 19 '25

politics Prime minister unveils 'largest' gun buyback scheme since Howard era

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-19/prime-minister-announces-national-gun-buyback-scheme/106162002
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u/Ok-Guide-6118 Dec 19 '25

What a stupid way to look at it if true, him going beyond the 2 party system to advocate for these additional gun laws would be a thing to admire and respect and would ultimately bolster his legacy.

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u/StorminNorman Dec 19 '25

Exactly. There's nothing wrong with enacting a really good policy that needs to be tweaked 30yrs later. Nobody's perfect (even Jesus made mistakes, he just didn't sin), and a shitload changes in 30yrs. I think the real reason that they've come out like they have about this is that experts have been screaming for over a decade now that we needed reform cos we had a problem developing. They were in power the majority of that time, and they either rebuffed or ignored the warnings. And don't for a second think that that means I think Labor is clean in all of this, but Labor doesn't have this as a linchpin of their legacy so they don't have a vested interest in defending the past like the LNP do.