Guns are not the problem. The problem is mass immigration of dangerous people and multiculturalism. And the biggest problem is, currently Albanese, but generally, our rotten political class.

At December 15 presser, Albanese and the press gallery already spoke as one voice. This was about guns and security, nothing to do with mass migration, multiculturalism, or reverse racism. The slaughter was already coopted as yet another fake reason for absurd levels of immigration, to Build Our Cohesion and Show The World that Bondi Isn't Us. Anyone who disses this inane script is racist, nativist, populist, probably neo nazi. So tedious.

Hmm, I partly agree with the author. I think the focus on guns after the Bondi shooting was an attempt to deflect attention from the Government’s culpable negligence in the lead-up to the massacre and direct the conversation from the “why” to the “how” of the atrocity. Albo might have hoped to win the same respect and admiration that Howard did after the Port Arthur massacre with his decisive moves on gun control. I also agree that gun control will not prevent terrorist murders. Terrorists around the world have used many means besides guns to commit murder, and illegal weapons are mostly used in crime.

But ... the reason why Australia has relatively low rates of murder and other crimes involving guns is precisely because of the restrictions introduced by Howard. And the reason why the USA has a rate of gun death 50 times higher than Australia is because it has far lighter restrictions on guns. There are legitimate questions to ask about gun laws in the wake of the attack, including how a suburban household that was the home of someone suspected of connections to ISIS (or indeed even without such suspicion) could legally contain so may guns.

I respect the fact that farmers, park rangers and some others have a legitimate need to own and use guns to shoot pests and injured stock. For everyone else, they are merely recreational. If restrictions on the number and type of weapons that can be owned and the character of the people who can own them help to keep us safer, then do be it

Why let a crisis go to waste when you can target everyone?

It's hard to enslave an armed people. Why would someone want to disarm a people? To enslave them? Alvin Toffler said that power is based on Force, Money, Knowledge- why would someone want to disempower a people?? To murder them??