Bondi Beach Gunmen Were On ASIO’s Radar
I see reports that the alleged Bondi Beach gunmen were on ASIO’s radar. Well, further investigative reports tell us that they travelled to the Philippines in November and attended militia training there in the south. This would involve firearms training and learning strategies for shooting people, I would suggest. It seems that our security agencies are not all that we might hope, if the evidence is anything to go by. This in conjunction with gun laws that allowed an individual to have licenses for 6 firearms. What do you need to have this many guns for? It is time to stop treating gun owners with kid gloves and get real about the dangers these deadly weapons pose to the greater community.
“A Tasmanian gun control advocate says sweeping gun law reforms after the Port Arthur massacre have been weakened over the years, with disastrous results.”
The Bondi Beach Shooters Had 6 Weapons
I mean, if you cannot drink and drive, why should civilians be allowed to possess multiple firearms for fun or spurious pest eradication reasons? Guns kill people and make killing human beings easy. It only takes one episode of mental breakdown or rage following a relationship breakdown to turn a gun owning person into a killer. Pulling a trigger makes this act much easier than the alternatives. You cannot control what human beings think or do, especially in western democracies. You can, however, limit and control their access to firearms. The Bondi Beach shooters had 6 weapons.
“The Bondi gunmen assembled an arsenal in plain sight. Police, ASIO, and politicians must reflect on this failure
Why one of the perpetrators of the Bondi atrocity could legally assemble an arsenal in plain sight of security agencies must surely be investigated. And brace for a gun control backlash.”
Origins & The Blame Game
The Bondi Beach shooters were Australians. Do not give me that racist shit about not being from Anglo stock. Yes, the 50 YO father originally came from India, many decades ago. The son was born in Australia. Hey, didn’t that mass murderer who shot and killed 50 innocent people in Christchurch, NZ come from Australia? What was his name? It was an Anglo name and he was born and bred here.
The guy who tackled one of the shooters at Bondi Beach was a Muslim and got shot twice during his heroic effort. Not such an easy story to misrepresent for the racists but they will find a way. These bad actors on social media have an agenda to stir up trouble any way they can. The facts are not important to them. In the mind’s of stupid folk if one person from a country of millions commits a heinous act they tar the whole population with the blame. This bad math does not apply to their own conception of who is Australian, as Aussies murder folk all the time. It is always a one way street when condemning others.
ASIO Failings
The alleged Bondi Beach gunmen were on ASIO’s radar, according to reports in the media. It seems that our self-promoting ASIO is not the security shield that it claims to be. One would think that they would have eyes and ears at militia training facilities in SE Asia. If you consider that this threat, the ISIS one, has been around for 20 plus years, one wonders what they spend our money on? Press conferences, perhaps?
“We can bang on about terrorism and causes but it was guns that made this horrific Bondi Beach incident so costly in lives. Why does a gun licensee need 6 weapons? For those that might require reminding, guns facilitate massacres by making it easier to kill people. 16 people are dead from this mass shooting event at the time of writing. It is lax and over generous gun laws which have provided these killers with 6 guns to use in this devastating attack on multiple victims. Nobody needs 6 guns, whatever their circumstances; and the Bondi Beach victims have paid the price.”
It seems that we love technology and endower it with awards for its effects, except when it comes to adjudging guns. Then, it is ‘guns don’t kill, people do’ . Technology facilitates making things easier and that includes killing people!
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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