Australian Mass Shooting Shows Why Banning Guns Won’t Stop Mass Shootings Australia is often held up as the example of how gun bans are supposed to stop mass violence. And yet — here we are. In this video, I break down the horrific mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 11 people dead during a religious celebration, despite one of the strictest gun control regimes in the world. This wasn’t a loophole. This wasn’t a technicality. This wasn’t a failure to pass enough laws. It was proof of

2.2K views · 14 reactions | Do you remember the Hoddle Street mass shooting? Late one August evening in 1987, 19-year-old Julian Knight commenced one of the deadliest shootings in Australian history. At the time of the rampage, Knight was on bail in the ACT for a stabbing in a Canberra nightclub. The event sparked an overhaul of Victoria's gun control laws. Read more about the events covered in The Newsreader here: https://ab.co/3EJ3b8W | ABC Canberra | Facebook

The Nationals voted against Labor’s gun laws. Let me be very clear: law-abiding gun owners are not the problem. Antisemitism and Islamic extremism are the problem. This government is trying to shift the focus onto gun ownership, but this was never about that. We will continue to fight these flawed reforms and defend the rights of decent, law-abiding Australians. Our gun owners deserve respect — not to be scapegoated for failures they had nothing to do with. #StandUpForAustralians #StopExtremism