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Colion Noir is pushing back on the gun control narrative following a deadly mass shooting in Australia. He points to the attack as evidence that bans don’t stop determined evil.
According to authorities, two gunmen opened fire during a Jewish community celebration marking the first night of Hanukkah near Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 15 people were killed.
One attacker was killed during the incident, another was taken into custody in critical condition, and investigators are now looking into whether a third individual may have been involved.
Australian officials labeled the attack terrorism. The shooters reportedly used long guns, and police later located a vehicle connected to the suspects that appeared to contain improvised explosive devices.
This matters because Australia is routinely cited as proof that sweeping gun bans “work.” After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, the country implemented mandatory gun buybacks, strict licensing, and sweeping prohibitions on civilian firearm ownership. Firearms are treated as rare, tightly controlled, and difficult to obtain.
And yet, the attackers still acquired guns. They also brought bombs.
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That reality undercuts the core claim behind gun bans, that removing lawful firearms prevents mass violence. The Bondi Beach attack shows the opposite. When someone is committed to mass murder, laws do not stop intent. They only shape the conditions under which victims are forced to respond.
During the attack, video footage captured a civilian in white clothing sprinting toward one of the gunmen, tackling him, and wrestling what appeared to be a shotgun from his hands. He had no firearm. No armor. No badge. He used his body.
Bans don’t stop bullets. Courage did.
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A civilian tackled an attacker.
Lives saved despite the system.
People stop evil, not Gun Free Nations.pic.twitter.com/EacbS4nhHq
The act was undeniably brave. It was also desperate.
As highlighted in the video, heroism should not require self-sacrifice when capability is an option. If someone is willing to charge an armed attacker with their bare hands, they are more than capable of stopping that threat with a firearm. If they are allowed to have one.
Instead, bystanders could do little more than record the attack as it unfolded. Not because they lacked courage, but because they were legally defenseless.
Australia’s geography makes this even harder to ignore. It is a massive island with no shared borders. No land crossings. No neighboring countries. Despite that isolation, and despite decades of confiscation and bans, firearms and explosives still made their way to the attackers.
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This was not an enforcement failure. It was proof that banning objects does not eliminate evil.
The broader context matters as well. Australia is currently experiencing a surge in violent crime, particularly in cities like Melbourne, where home invasions, carjackings, stabbings, and machete attacks have become increasingly common. As firearms disappear, violence does not stop. It changes tools, as Noir correctly asserts.
The policy response remains the same: more police power, more stop-and-search authority, and more centralized control, rather than empowering individuals to defend themselves.
The Bondi Beach attack leaves a stark choice. You cannot legislate evil out of existence. You can only decide whether innocent people are helpless or capable when it arrives.
That decision matters more than any gun law ever passed.
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When I heard about this tragedy, I told my sweety, ” The next thing out of the Aussies mouths will be more gun laws.” I was not disappointed.
The “blame the gun not the one using it” left can never admit they are wrong about anything.
Their answer to their failed policies is, we need more laws that don’t and never will work.
It is always telling that the first thing proposed is restrictions on the innocent. Our Government is corrupt on all levels, both parties , we have gangsters ,cartels , corrupt government officials , bureaucrats , drug dealers that will still all get weapons, while the innocent common people are denied self protection
.what do you say to them when you release dangerous criminals, import more and defund the police?. What happens when budgetary cuts reduce police and security? Dont say it cant happen, it did and is.
You want distopia, this is how you get it.
Look to england, where common knives are prohibited.
Quote——————-That reality undercuts the core claim behind gun bans, that removing lawful firearms prevents mass violence. The Bondi Beach attack shows the opposite. When someone is committed to mass murder, laws do not stop intent. They only shape the conditions under which victims are forced to respond.————quote
Here we have a statement that claims if a gun control law is not perfect we should cancel all gun control.
Now let’s look at the facts:
. The only weapons available to the terrorists were a bolt action rifle and a shotgun. In reality if Australia had not banned high capacity assault rifles the death and carnage would not have been a few people but with “assault rifles” with 100 round drums, like those that are available in the U.S., the deaths casualties would have been “in the hundreds”, just as happened at Los Vegas. Attempting to ignore such simple facts proved that one cannot see the forest for the trees.
The Australian Official was correct when he said we need to see if we need more gun control as these two maniacs should have never been permitted to own any weapons at all. Remember just about 2 years ago a group of terrorists tried to get shotguns to murder people in London and were denied permits so they then resorted to knives which ended up getting them annihilated by a British Pubs patrons.
I would say control “did” work both in the Australian Tragedy, the British London attack, and failed big time in the U.S. Los Vegas massacre.
It’s interesting that a gun hater is posting on a gun forum. A person who differs in their opinion can focus the discussion and add points not otherwise thought of. However, that being said, you are literally preaching to people who couldn’t give two 💩’s what you opinion is. You are the very definition of an internet troll.
“An internet troll is a person who intentionally disrupts online communities by posting inflammatory, offensive, or off-topic comments to provoke emotional responses, start arguments, or sow discord, often for amusement or a sense of power, utilizing anonymity to hide their true identity and actions.”
Still can’t spell Las Vegas correctly….
it’s the king country so they can live with their gun bans! the usa isn’t the kings country so pound salt all you gun haters!!!
Correction. The latest study shows that President Trump with the help of the Far Right radical Supreme Court now has z”more power” than King George had long ago over the American people before its ill-conceived Revolution which denied forever to the American People, true democracy with a Parliamentary Government and multiple political parties. The Republicans have been attempting to also turn the clock back to post Revolutionary America where no one but the Rich and Powerful were allowed to vote. Even White working men were denied the right to vote.
And it is not a question of people hating guns, it’s a question of keeping guns out of the hands of maniacs and criminals. Claiming all gun control is designed to take away guns is rooted in hysterical paranoia and is not born out by History. As a matter of fact despite Right Wing total ignorance, A.H. in WWII Germany actually “relaxed” the draconian gun laws that had been passed by Bismarck. A.H. only banned Jews from owning guns who at the time did not want firearms anyway.
so what part of “pound salt” did you not understand……
Non Sequitur
Go troll somewhere else demon.
So your saying england, austrailia etc, did not really ban guns or confiscate them, and even relaxed their gun laws, facinating.
Read solzhenitsyn some time, he will tell you totalitian govt’s would routinely give criminals a slap on the wrist but jail citizens for weapon violations, and even release criminals from jail to terrorize the populace. Sounds famiiiar eh?
But dont worry, the rich elite , filthy politicains and Taylor Swift will have personal security, and special treatment.
Good grief, many of YOUR politicians have stated the goal of gun control is total citizen disarmament.
Except for their rich buddys of course.
Alec Baldwin got away with murder.
How do you know the jews did not want firerms anyway, were you there or just going on what the 3rd reich said.
As far as keeping guns from the hands of mainiacs and criminals, look no furter than the Gov’t itself.
You like many left wing extremeists lack critical thinking