Golf Legend Phil Mickelson Blasts Aussie PM’s Gun Control Push

I’m not a golf fan. Golf seems like a waste of a perfectly good gun range, but a lot of people like it. It seems like it’s one of those games that’s better to play than to watch, I suppose.

But even so, I know who some of the best in that game are. Phil Mickelson is definitely one of them, but other than being really good at hitting a tiny ball in a game known in part for silly pants, I don’t know much about the guy.

What I do know, though, is that while people like Steve Kerr are pushing gun control, the golf legend is seeing common sense.

The 2 terrorists didn’t seem affected by the strict gun laws already in place. In fact the shooting went on for a long time since there wasn’t anybody else with a gun to stop them. I’m not a big gun guy but even I’m not this dumb to believe what this guy is selling. https://t.co/9MtXTHxRCF

— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) December 16, 2025

He might not be a big gun guy, but he sees the situation a lot more clearly than a lot of anti-gunners who think of themselves as experts on the topic.

Hell, if these guys really had ties to ISIS, they could well have gotten full-auto weapons through those illicit contacts and done a lot worse, but thankfully, they didn’t.

They did enough damage as it was. 

What happened was awful by any metric. People claiming it would have been worse if they’d had an AR-15 are ignoring the fact that a lot of shootings here involving those rifles never turn up with that kind of body count. Shootings are a lot more complicated than “semi-auto means higher death toll.”

And since no one could fight back, they were just sitting ducks until the police arrived, and even then, the cops there didn’t seem to be much help. Had it been a few years ago and someone on that beach been without a mask, the police response would have looked very different, but as it was, they pulled a Uvalde and did nothing.

Granted, I don’t know how many actually had guns–I’m not sure if the police there are more like ours, or more like the UK’s. 

Still, as per usual, the bad guys had guns, and the good guys on the beach didn’t.

While Australia’s prime minister is pushing gun control in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, it seems pretty plain to anyone with two neurons to rub together that, despite claims for years, Australia’s gun control doesn’t inherently make everyone safer. Even if you took it as a given that it makes some people safer–other than the criminals, that is–it still creates problems for a lot of other people.

No one could defend themselves.

To me, that’s the greatest crime a government can commit.

A government should empower its people. It should protect them from external threats and otherwise get out of the way of the people it serves. Australia’s government doesn’t do that. We see the results. 

It won’t be the last time, either.

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