Australia's gun laws have long been the envy of the world. They must remain so, especially after Bondi

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/australia-gun-laws-envy-of-world-must-remain-after-bondi-ntwnfb

After the awful attack at Bondi, Australia is facing several reckonings. There’s a long-overdue national focus on antisemitism, something that the Jewish community has been worried about as long as I have been alive. There’s the ongoing concern about national security, and questions about how something like this could have happened. But to me, as a public health expert and Jewish Australian, perhaps the most important conversation we are finally having is the one about guns.

Public health experts have been warning about guns for at least a decade. In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, Australians came together and implemented a suite of measures to curb gun violence across the country. And it worked. Prior to 1996, we saw about one mass shooting a year. In the decades since, we have seen vanishingly few major events, and none with a death toll anywhere close to the shootings of the 80s and 90s.

Even during the Bondi tragedy, our gun laws were not entirely useless. It’s been reported that the two shooters might have been armed with bolt-action rifles and at least one straight-pull shotgun. These are firearms that can only fire a single bullet at a time and require the shooter to perform a physical action to ready the next round. While these guns can be fired quite quickly, to devastating effect, they are still far slower and more cumbersome than the high-capacity, semi-automatic rifles used in US mass shootings. There would’ve been far more deaths at Bondi if the shooters had been able to get the guns that are available overseas.

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It can be done - show them Australia

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1. Isnt it a coincidence that that beach has the same name as Pam Bondi?

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2. Indeed

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🎄🎄🎄

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3. Muzzleloaders.

That's what the founders had in mind when they came up with the 2A.