Sydney – Australia’s prime minister proposed tougher gun laws on Monday after gunmen killed 15 people in a mass shooting targeting a Jewish festival at a Sydney beach.
The shooters owned half a dozen rifles, but they didn’t carry the cache of weapons with them. Restricting the number of guns you can own would’ve changed nothing.
We don’t need to look at our gun laws but rather, how radicalisation slips through ongoing checks. We need to look… https://t.co/DTaHStNpqf pic.twitter.com/fSgYjE2CVb
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Albanese said he would take the reforms to a National Cabinet meeting with state premiers on Monday afternoon.
“People can be radicalised over a period of time. Licences should not be in perpetuity,” he said.
Mass shootings have been rare in Australia since a lone gunman killed 35 people in the tourist town of Port Arthur in 1996.
The so-called “Port Arthur massacre” led to sweeping reforms that were long seen as a gold standard worldwide.
These included a gun buyback scheme, a national firearms register and a crackdown on the ownership of semi-automatic weapons.
Albanese said it was time to consider whether the country’s gun laws needed to be tightened up again.
And there it is: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says tougher gun laws will be put to the national cabinet.
We just watched 100’s of people lie defenseless on the ground while criminals shot at them, unable to do a thing about it because the Australian government is a nanny… pic.twitter.com/qTdh9vDL8E
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