Australia Pushing Gun Buyback Following Bondi Beach Attack

Oh, Australia.

Once a place I wanted to live in, and not just because the male-to-female ratio was attractive to me at the time. I mean, it’s what I think of as a beautiful place, and I still want to visit, even if literally everything wants to kill me. I mean, it’s not that different from visiting my in-laws right after my wife and I got together, if we’re being honest.

But as far as living there? There’s no way that would now, and part of that is the gun laws. While it’s a different country with less crime overall, I just like guns, and I like a lot of things I’m just not going to get down under.

And then the Bondi Beach attack has thrown things into even more of an uproar. Now, we’re looking at yet another buyback.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is leading the push for a national gun buyback scheme despite a newly announced program in NSW expected to cost “hundreds of millions of dollars”.

The prime minister heralded the joint NSW and federal government scheme as “taking guns off our streets” on Sunday morning.

The scheme would see 274,000 guns taken out of circulation, with those with excess firearms receiving up to $1,000 for their weapons from November 2.

By early next year, that figure would rise to $10,000 for those with a market value of more than $3,000.

When asked if other states would follow NSW, Mr Albanese called out the “farcical” firearms legislation in other parts of the nation.

“I think it is somewhat farcical that some states were still … having paper licences that therefore couldn’t be traced,” Mr Albanese said.”What I would say is in the Commonwealth they have a willing partner.”

In Victoria, Premier Ben Carroll stopped short in committing to a similar scheme on Sunday.

When asked repeatedly about the possibility of a gun buyback in his own state, Mr Carroll said he would rely on advice from police on whether it was necessary.

Let’s keep in mind that they did this after Port Arthur back in the 1990s, and how did that work out? They had as many massacres, if not more, after the gun control push than before, and none of it stopped Bondi Beach from happening.

Now, rather than face the fact that there’s an Islamic extremism problem in his country, Albanese is attacking the guns.

Australia has rolled out a buyback scheme every few years since Port Arthur, and they keep getting guns. That suggests that maybe the original buyback did little to round up the firearms, which means there’s zero chance this will catch them, either.

Let’s remember that the only people who comply with a buyback, especially a mandatory one, are the people who are inclined to follow the law as a general principle. You know, the people who don’t commit atrocities in the name of Allah or anyone else.

Meanwhile, since we’ve seen several terrorism-related shootings in an anti-gun city like Paris, where guns have never really been a thing. Does Albanese think he can actually do anything that France couldn’t?

No.

He’s kicking the can down the road. He’s engaging in the Kabuki theater of gun control so that, hopefully, when it blows up in someone’s face, he’s retired and can judge from the sidelines.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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