The Bondi Beach shooting shows Australia’s need for tougher gun laws, leaders say
Australian leaders quickly vowed to tighten the country’s gun ownership laws after Sunday’s deadly gun attack on Jewish people on Bondi Beach. Australia has a history of reacting quickly to gun control and law enforcement, and many have seen rapid gun bans brought in following mass killings since then.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is proposing new gun restrictions, including a limit on the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain and review existing licenses over time, after removing existing licenses as an act of antisemitic terrorism in the heart of the nation.
“The government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary, including the need for stricter gun laws,” he said after authorities revealed that the two elders The suspects are the suspects, who were the Father and the sonhe had held a firearms license for ten years and legally surrendered his six guns. Those weapons, including rifles and one handgun, are believed to have been used in Sunday’s attack, according to police.
Some government leaders have also proposed banning gun ownership for some Australian citizens, a measure that would exclude the suspected gunmen, who came to Australia in 1998 on student visas, according to authorities. Authorities would not confirm which country he was from.
His son, who had a gun licence, is a natural-born Australian citizen.
Government leaders also proposed “increased use of criminal intelligence” in determining who is eligible for a gun license. That would mean that the investigation in 2019 of the investigation into the suspicious friends of the son, which was confirmed on Monday by Albanese, would have been suitable for the unfit Father to have a gun.
Christopher Minns, the Premier of New South Wales, where Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, is located, said the government’s gun laws will change, but he could not say yet.
“It means to introduce a bill in Parliament to – I mean to be really hard – make it more difficult to get these terrible weapons that have no practical use in our society,” Mingns said. “If you’re not a farmer, you’re not involved in agriculture, why do you need these big guns that put the public at risk and make life dangerous and difficult for the new South Wales Police?”
Australia’s ban on semi-automatic rifles comes after the 1996 massacre
The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in nearly three decades in Australia, since the massacre in Port Arthur, where 35 people were killed.
Just 12 days after the shooting, Australian law enforcement passed a law banning the sale and import of all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and firearms; forcing people to present a valid reason, and wait 28 days, to buy any firearm; And to begin the return of the big gun, the mandatory ban on weapons.
The Australian government confiscated and destroyed nearly 700,000 guns after the law was passed, cutting the number of gun-owning families in half.
“It is evident that the murders related to firearms have fallen so much in Australia, which cannot be shaken,” the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who despised many of the new group, told CBS News’ Doone two decades later, in 2016.
In the 15 years before those laws were passed, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia. In the twenty years since then, there was not a single thing. Total gun deaths have dropped by nearly 60% over the same period.
“People used to say to me, ‘You’re violating my civil rights by taking my gun,'” Hollard told CBS news. “And I was coming [respond]’Roger that. Will you understand the contradiction, the greatest human right to live a safe life without fear of random murder. ‘”
Asked to respond to critics who say the fall in gun deaths could actually have happened because of the law, Howard told CBS News: “I can say that, because all the research shows it.”
“The number of shooting deaths, gun homicides have fallen, related homicides have fallen,” he said. “Isn’t it evidence? Or are we expected to believe that everything will happen with grace? Come on!”
A study published earlier this year, however, found that Australia still had some way to go to enact the 2016 law, called a national gun accord. This paper, by the Think Tank Australia Institute Calm, said that some of the measures of the Act were to be fully implemented 29 years later, and that others were enforced inconsistently by different governments.
The Act was “ambitious, politically, and necessary for public safety,” the government concluded, said Howard’s will, a favorite of Howard’s who would pollute the treasury.
However, “Australia still allows two to hold firearms licences, and lacks a national firearms register, and still has Prohibition-friendly laws,” the group said, adding that overall gun ownership across the country had increased over the past three decades.
“There are now more than four million registered firearms in Australia: 800,000 more than the (1996) recall,” the agency said in its report. “Australians need gun laws that live up to the courage of the Howard government, and right now Australia doesn’t have them.”
