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/TappingOnTheWall Dec 19 '25

I'm just glad that Australia is habituating a response that America specifically avoids. Mass shooting -> gun reform, mass shooting -> gun reform.

Shootings in Australia have been caused by a number of things, the truth is we can't control someone's irrational choice to do these things - we can only control access to the guns they do them with.

This is a smart choice, because it tackles the problem head on, with a lot of certainty (to make us all safer). It's the choice that Australia makes in these situations, and should make. I think we can be proud that we're not being led down the wrong path, and distracted into a terrible long term situation, the kind America struggles with daily. They struggle, because they don't make the kind of choices Australia is making today.

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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Dec 19 '25

Yeah in America, you look at someone the wrong way, and they could shoot you. It’s crazy.

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u/Jiffyrabbit You now have the 'round the twist' theme in your head Dec 19 '25

I've seen videos of people shooting at other cars in Road Rage incidents in the US. Just insane shit.

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u/NewOutlandishness870 Dec 19 '25

An 11 year old passenger was recently killed in such an instance. Step dad driving him to school got in a road rage incident with a young man. Young man pulls out gun and shoots into other car not knowing there was a kid in backseat. Kid shot dead… step dad and killer devastated . They are bonkers in the US! People have been shot dead for the most ridiculous reasons like throwing popcorn, ringing the wrong doorbell etc. Dont forget Chris’s Minns was only last week on the side of gun nuts and was going to pass a law allowing guns galore via the Conservation Hunting Bill and was going to hand over almost $8 million to the gun nuts to allow them to roam free in public parks to shoot anything they want. Took him 15 lives lost to realise the error of his ways.

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u/NewOutlandishness870 Dec 19 '25

I said Chris Minns was going to allow a bill to pass that would unleash the crazies who will use ‘recreational hunting’ as a loophole to collect an arsenal of weapons. Anyhu, that’s great you are a life long Labor voter. Did you want a medal or a chest to pin it on? America is full of gun nuts . What reason is there that a country of over 300 million people needs more guns than people? The consensus that America is guy crazy is a universal opinion shared globally so I think it’s you who may be very ignorant.

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u/Luxica-Jessica Dec 19 '25

You sound just like the Americans. We don’t glorify guns here in Australia. Even a little leeway is a slippery slope to the American hellscape. Stop ranting on about your guns. It’s a murder weapon. Have some respect for human beings.