“Australia has pretty much run out of gun laws to implement, but reports say that the Australian government will be using this recent attack as justification for even more. At what point do Australians push back on the deadly and restrictive gun laws they are forced to comply with? At what point do those who support Australia’s gun laws realize that they could be the next victims of one of these preventable tragedies? How long will it be until the people of Australia, and America for that matter, start taking a long, hard look at the unassimilated immigrants we so irresponsibly welcome into our countries?”
Many believe the Australian government should be held accountable for enabling what has turned out to be a human tragedy.
The recent Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney, Australia, was carried out by what appears to be two radicalized Islamic, antisemitic terrorists. The father and son team took the lives of at least 15 people and injured 40 more. Why? It’s not clear that we will ever understand such a vicious ideology or why it would cause someone to act out with such hatred, but the Australian gun laws are something we can directly point to as a contributing factor.
The younger of the two attackers, the son, whose home in Bonnyrigg was raided by police, had been known since 2019 to ASIO for his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State cell but had been deemed “not an immediate threat.” Police have also stated that both of the gunmen had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and that two Islamic State flags were found in their car.
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By Dan Wos
