Australian Liberals Find Push for Gun Control Post-Bondi Backfiring On Them

In the immediate aftermath of the attack at Bondi Beach, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jumped at the chance to call for stricter gun control laws. This was a terrorist attack in his country, and his first thought wasn’t to address radical Islamist propaganda, extremism in general, or anything of the sort. It was to step in and restrict an already heavily restricted access to a very limited number of firearms.

And it seemed like kind of a safe bet from his standpoint. After all, Aussies don’t look at guns the way America does. They don’t see them as an innate human right that should be protected. They actually do tend to see it as a privilege in most cases.

Despite that, Albanese is finding that his jump to gun control, among his other idiotic leaps, is causing some significant political backlash for him.

Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers’ remorse.

Details of the horror that unfolded on December 14 were still emerging when the Coalition first began to demand Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recall parliament.

The opposition wanted Labor to move quickly to tackle antisemitism and extremism, while slamming mooted gun control reforms as a mere distraction from those issues.

When Albanese on Monday revealed parliament would sit for two days next week to pass sweeping laws addressing all the above, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s first response was to criticise how long he had taken.

Now, in an entirely predictable case of “be careful what you wish for”, the Coalition has pivoted to attack Labor for being in a rush.

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Nationals Leader David Littleproud has raged at Albanese for playing “petty” politics by refusing to separate the hate speech and gun components of the bill.

The truth is, though, there are a lot of people who are pushing back at the idea of more extensive gun control laws in a nation already known for having a pretty strict system in place.

Various states have been less than thrilled with Albanese’s proposals on guns and are giving him lip over it, at least to one degree or another, and it’s kind of great to see.

It seems a foregone conclusion that Albanese would get what he wanted, but while the author here seems to think that the issue was a push for Albanese and the Liberals to move quicker, he didn’t exactly waste time calling for “hate speech” rules and more extensive gun control. He got backlash from that because both are terrible ideas.

And I’m thrilled to see it, because again, it seemed like it would happen.

When we couple this with how few Canadians took advantage of the trial “buyback” there, it almost suggests there is a line in the sand where even the most restrictive anti-gun countries find out that not everyone is willing to be pushed around forever. I say “almost”, because even those officials in Australia who are saying “no” to limits on gun ownership or “buybacks” seem to be in favor of Albanese’s plan for a national gun registry. 

If Australians blow off this “chance” for gun control, my faith in humanity might be primed for restoration some day.

Not today or anything, because, well…**gestures at everything**

But sometime in the future? Anything is possible.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media, ours or the media abroad, continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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