You can only begin to imagine how much this is used abused by all our major parties and foreign interests, so the laws aren’t going to be changed any time soon. They all make too much money from it – at least 3 of the top 10 donors to each major party in every Federal election over the past couple of decades have been Chinese companies or individuals, and at least 5 out of the top 10 donors for each party every election cycle have been foreigners.

As for the the Muslim gangs, they started becoming a problem here right after the government banned our guns in the 90’s. They weren’t a thing here before the late 90’s. The beginning of their rise to power here coincided almost perfectly with the end of the Howard governments’ gun buyback program.

They were first looking at it a couple of years ago after a 15 year old radicalized Muslim shot and killed a police employee, then was killed in a gunfight with other officers.

Their original plan was to try push through legislation allowing police to detain people aged 13 or older without issuing charges. They got caught out on it at the time and it didn’t end up passing
Now they’re trying it again, except they’ve now they’ve dropped the age limit to at least 10.

Also, I think Jon is underestimating how long it will take this lot to start expanding these laws. If they do end up passing this, it won’t be a year before they start pushing the vaccinations onto kids. I’d give the Turnbull government 6 months at most.

They’ve already tried several methods to force vaccinations onto people. It’s backfired on them spectacularly though – the current lot in government fail to realize just how unpopular they are, and many people don’t trust them at all.
Their sudden heavy increase in attempts to force vaccinations onto people has caused the opposite effect to what they wanted and has been getting more and more people to step back and start questioning vaccinations.
And if there is one thing that really gets people to question an issue down here, its the government threatening to impose penalties on those who don’t do it.

But compared to most other countries, we never really had a major gun problem either.

We had no reported mass killings (shooting or otherwise) for nearly 43 years between 1928 and 1971, and only a small handful since 1971. And most of the massacres from 1928 or earlier were either government run or at least government approved campaigns against the native Aboriginals.

Guns weren’t really on most Australian minds prior to the Port Arthur massacre in 96, which itself was almost certainly a government false flag operation (sure raises questions when all the forensic evidence collected from the massacre was locked up and sealed away by the government for 30 years).
It was a lack of understanding on gun issues over here that made it very easy for government to come in and force people to hand over the guns. The Port Arthur event was used to quickly push through legislation to take guns away from the people and served as the basis of many subsequent anti gun campaigns.

Ironically, there has probably been more focus on guns and gun ownership since 96 than there was prior to Port Arthur. All of it negative of course – no actual discussion or debate on guns is allowed in our media. Only smear campaigns against guns and gun supporters.

What the media won’t tell you here is that criminals are still very much able to smuggle all sorts of illegal automatic weapons into the country. Nor will they tell you that the state of New South wales alone has experienced an average of 20 drive by shootings a month every month since 2011. Low fatalities as these attacks are for now mostly committed by gangs using terror and intimidation tactics. (going to be another matter if the ever decide to just start killing).

So in another twist of irony, we’ve actually had more trouble with gun violence in the time since they banned the guns than before they banned the guns.