Holophobia is new to me. There is such a word, but I can't find any connections to firearms. AI suggests it's just another phobia to do with ‘holism’, and ‘holo’ as an ancient Greek weapon doesn't figure anywhere either.

Why people bulls.t and try to prove their superiority with other than plain language is extremely irritating.

And it doesn't take three pages to explain that guns in Australia are the least of our worries. Guns are inanimate items, not dangerous unless in the hands of dangerous people. And, apart from the likes of a Tasmanian lunatic, the only dangerous people in Australia are religious nutters who are beneficiaries of our reckless mass immigration policy.

#… dangerous people in Australia are religious nutters who are beneficiaries of our reckless mass immigration policy.…# ttbn.

Prevarication over the connection of Muslims to Islam, is the common and very dangerous point of appeasement.

Just say it…Muslims!

It beggars belief that anyone could publish an article on this subject less than 3 months after 15 innocent Australians were murdered by gunmen, and make no reference to the Bondi atrocity. Those victims could be alive today if Australia had more effective gun controls.

"Holophobia is new to me. There is such a word, but I can't find any connections to firearms. AI suggests it's just another phobia to do with ‘holism’, and ‘holo’ as an ancient Greek weapon doesn't figure anywhere either."

The word means a generic phobia concerning weapons. The Hoplon was an ancient Greek shield carried by their soldiers from which the term Hoplite was derived.

Thanks mhaze. I didn't look hard enough.

I see that the wrongheaded idea that the lack of gun "control", not the banning of Muslims entering Australia , still prevails. Sadly, some people will never 'get it'.

ttbn

It is not only Muslim extremists that are a problem. Last month a man threw what appears to have been a bomb at an “invasion day” demonstration in Perth. Fortunately, it did not explode, but if it had it could have killed or injured many people. A friend of mine was among the demonstrators. Australia’s worst terrorist measured by body count is Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch in 2019.

Guns are designed to kill. Every year about 200 people in Australia are killed by them. There are some people for whom gun use is a necessary part of their job (police, farmers etc). For everyone else it is essentially a hobby. I think it is entirely reasonable for governments to regulate who can own a gun, what types of guns they can own, how many they can own, and how they are stored.