Australia’s response to the Bondi Beach terrorist attack targeting Jews at a Hanukkah celebration continues to boggle the mind.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese railed about the “rise of right-wing extremist groups” after the shooting, which left 15 people dead and dozens injured. The gunmen were a father-son duo who were reportedly “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” The father, Sajid Akram, was killed by police, and his son, Naveed Akram, “suffered critical injuries.”
In addition to a crackdown on hate speech following the mass shooting, the Australian government plans to review immigration laws to ensure that people with antisemitic or racist views cannot migrate to the country. Another predictable step, given the country’s liberal leadership, is gun confiscation via a national buy-back scheme.
🚨Australian PM Albanese: “Hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected & destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/3iig0NabMu
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2025
“We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme,” the prime minister said at a press conference, explaining that new legislation will be passed to fund the program.
Australia has some of the world’s toughest gun restrictions, and the buy-back scheme is expected to be the biggest since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, when a lone gunman killed 35 people.
There were an estimated 3.2 million firearms nationwide at the time, with the buy-back plan resulting in more than 650,000 firearms being destroyed, according to ABC.
At this rate, there will be few firearms left for Aussies to protect themselves amid a record surge in immigration.
Other plans being considered include accelerating the development of a national firearms register, limiting the number of guns a single person can own, making Australian citizenship a condition of holding a gun license, and further restricting the types of weapons that are legal.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Australia has fallen.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 19, 2025
Grok show me a “leader” ignoring a blisteringly obvious problem to make a performative gesture that appeases his base
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) December 19, 2025
So a bunch of innocent people were victimized by Islamic terrorists…
…and Australia’s solution is to take even MORE rights away from the innocent people who were victimized?
If anything, they should ARM innocent people, not DISARM them. pic.twitter.com/huqa6AaQiq
— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) December 19, 2025
So acts of Islamic terrorism equals taking weapons of defence of any takeover away? No wonder the Founding Fathers created the 2nd Amendment. These men were geniuses, they knew the biggest threat to democracy would come from the so called ‘Progressives’.
— HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) December 19, 2025
Jesus @AlboMP you people aren’y going to be happy until you are totally overrun, are you?
You see what happened and how the police didn’t save anyone, and you think taking the rest of the guns is the solution?
Fucked in the head.
— Robert McLaws (@robertmclaws) December 19, 2025
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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