‘When golf pro Phil Mickelson posted a message on ‘X’ about the Bondi Beach mass shooting, he observed, “The 2 terrorists didn’t seem affected by the strict gun laws already in place. In fact the shooting went on for a long time since there wasn’t anybody else with a gun to stop them. I’m not a big gun guy but even I’m not this dumb to believe what this guy [Australian PM Albanese] is selling.”’
Almost before the bodies were cold at Australia’s Bondi Beach, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his colleagues were talking about stricter gun control laws, including limits on the number of licensed firearms an Australian citizen could own, and preventing non-citizens from getting a gun license.
Amid the anguish, there were some social media sneers at Americans for the number of mass shootings reported in the U.S., most of which happen in so-called “gun-free zones,” where the victims are just as disarmed as those who died at the Hannukkah celebration in Sydney.
But Albanese and his cheerleaders could learn something from us Yanks, and from Jews in Israel, where the threat of violence hovers over the population every single day.
Proponents of Australian-style disarmament deliberately ignore, or significantly downplay, the other side of this dilemma. Fifteen of Albanese’s countrymen are dead because they could not fight back.
By Dave Workman

