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Gun laws are not strenuous enough in Australia. It is time to get serious about gun laws. You get folk comparing Australia with America, as if that is enough. The United States is woefully inadequate when it comes to gun laws and the safety of its citizenry. Firearms are incredibly dangerous devices making killing people easy. The onus should be on gun owners to constantly prove their fitness to hold their gun licenses. It should not be a set and forget thing. I suggest that all gun owners should have to complete constant online training and courses every 3 months. Failure to do so would see their licenses cancelled and their guns removed.
Let’s Get Real About Controlling Guns Downunder
This constant training would be a way to measure the mental wellbeing of firearms licensees. Because the 50 YO man who just killed 15 innocent human beings at Bondi Beach held his firearms license for more than a decade. During that time, he was likely a responsible licensed gun owner. But it only takes a single episode to use firearms to mass murder other human beings. That is the extreme danger that guns pose for all of us. Gun owners should be required to prove their mental fitness every 3 months via online questionnaires and testing. Plus, every 12 months they should have to undergo in-person interviews to adjudge their fitness.
Australian Guns Laws Require Updating & Upgrading
Guns are not toys for big boys and girls to play with. Recreational reasons for gun ownership should be tightly controlled and constantly monitored. The same with firearms used to eradicate pests on properties. The onus must be on the licensee to justify the need for the guns and this should be constantly demanded every 3 months. It only takes one mental breakdown or one relationship failure enragement to transform a responsible gun owner into a mass killer. Or in this Bondi Beach instance a dark decision to go down the deranged terrorism route. As did the Trains’ in Wieambilla and that Sovereign Citizen double murder in Victoria. Guns make killing people easier. Australia has a reputation for paying lip service to regulation rather than really imposing it properly. Toothless tigers are everywhere you look in the regulatory sphere downunder. Our political leaders don’t want to offend anyone.
After the Port Arthur massacre, PM John Howard has been lauded for making the biggest change to gun laws and gun possession in Australian history. In reality, many of those mooted changes to the gun laws have never been brought in. Half arsed is another good description for Australians and their leaders. It is time to fix this up and time to get serious about gun laws. It is not about keeping people happy, it is about controlling access to these deadly weapons for the safety of the whole population.
Half Arsed Implementation Of Gun Laws
“Almost 30 years after Port Arthur, there are more guns in Australia than ever before, and the Howard Government’s landmark National Firearms Agreement is falling short of its stated aims. There is no National Firearms Register and minors can use firearms in every state. Eight OECD countries have lower gun homicide rates than Australia.
The agreement was reconfirmed by all jurisdictions in 2017, however some of its resolutions remain unimplemented including the creation of the National Firearm Registry. Others have been implemented inconsistently across Australia’s states and territories, such as under 18 firearm use, hampering their effectiveness.
Nearly thirty years later, Australia’s firearm laws are not living up to the promise of the Howard Government’s bravery.”
Armed Extremism In The Aussie Bush
“Dezi Freeman, it seems, changed his name to signify his ‘freedom’, as a ‘free-man’. Sovereign Citizens claim that they do not abide by the laws of the land in Australia. They fly the red maritime flag to show their difference and in an attempt to justify their beliefs by obscure laws of the sea. Armed extremism in the Aussie bush has reared its ugly and violent head again. Wieambilla and, now, Porepunkah will go down in the annals of cop killing events in Oz. These deranged individuals are not heroes, and their cold-blooded murderous actions are not admirable in any way.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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