woberto Report This Comment
Date: December 15, 2025 10:38AM

I am happy to blame our PM for this one.
Allowing all the free Palestine protests & flags, then recognizing Palestine at the UN.
The PM claims to be against antisemitism but does little and then sends the wrong messages to these homegrown terrorists.

Australian values should be reinforced at every opportunity, instead the last few governments have proceeded with woke agendas that erode our county.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: December 15, 2025 11:38AM

If you hate woke so much you should emigrate to the U.S. where guns are everywhere and people start shooting for any number of reasons. It's the land of the free, home of the brave, and place where this shit is almost a daily occurrence. Blaming whole groups of people for the actions of one or a few of its members doesn't work, that's why it's almost a daily occurrence here. And what about Ahmed Al Ahmed, the dude who rushed one of the gunmen and disarmed him, where does he fit into your view of people of Arab origins? If we're going to penalize a whole group of people for the actions of some of them, in the U.S. it's time to do something about the preponderance of violence coming from young white males.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: December 15, 2025 12:50PM

My Arab mates dad was an industrial chemist and taught us to make hydrogen poppers and chlorine/brakefluid bombs when we were in high school. We eradicated a lot of Minah birds. Nothing sus' there, Aussies are Aussies no matter where they come from.
There were a few heroic acts in Bondi.
They don't show the footage now but early footage showed a local stomping on the head of the terrorist while the police were handcuffing him on the ground. That guy is a hero too.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: December 16, 2025 12:03AM

Reality with it is Australia has millions of guns. Vast majority are legally owned. It doesn't take much to get one. These were also legally owned firearms.

The difference is you can't get semi/full auto etc. These guys had a shotgun and a rifle, which also require constant reloading. Imagine the damage that would've been caused with an AK or an M .. Nobody would've been tackling that by hand.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: December 16, 2025 01:23AM

Automatic weapons, machine guns, are illegal here except by very special permits but semi-automatic, one trigger pull for each bullet, are everywhere. In Florida and many other states it's legal to carry them in the open or concealed in public with no special permits though government buildings don't allow it and businesses can refuse to allow it. People get shot for knocking on the wrong door, over minor traffic incidents, getting the wrong fast food order, just all sorts of stupid things. Then there are the too frequent Bondi type events. It's insane. And not that any of the folks wounded at Bondi can be considered lucky but they don't have immense medical bills facing them in the aftermath like victims here. For a few years now, shootings have been the leading cause of death of U.S. children. There are far too many people with short tempers or who are just stupid in the handling of guns for them to be so easily available. I admire Ahmed's restraint in not shooting that mother fucker with his own gun when he wrestled it away; I think most Americans would have shot him right there, me included.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: December 16, 2025 09:19AM

Yeah I wonder about that. I am definitely the type to run towards a threat than run away from it. But I probably would just get shot. But if I wrestled the gun away from the terrorist, I don't think I would shoot them. I talks tough but I really don't think I could shoot someone.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: December 16, 2025 12:08PM

There was dash cam footage released today of the first couple that were killed.

The same guy that was tackled later, was tackled by 2 passers by as he got out of the car with the gun; they got his gun off him then too. And the son was already on the bridge, turned around and shot both of them dead.

So 3 unarmed people wrestled the gun out of the cunts hands. Total legends.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: December 16, 2025 12:45PM

If it's a shotgun you can aim for the legs and there's a good chance he'd survive but not be running away. With a rifle, gotta go with a body shot and whatever happens, happens, don't let that asshole get away to do more harm. There have been too many of these people in the U.S. to show much mercy and probably the biggest driver of gun sales is for protection against them. Sometimes those defensive weapons end up in the wrong hands through mishandling or theft. Back in 2010 I was taking care of my mom with dementia in her home when I had to have surgery. My sister drove down from Ohio, about 1800km, to help while I was out of action. Sis gets here, plops her purse with her defensive gun in it right beside the front door, and doesn't lock the door until I ask her if a burglar comes in and sees that purse there what's the first thing that happens? People do the same thing or worse with children in the house or carry guns in their cars but don't lock their cars at home in their driveways at night, just all kinds of basically forgetful things. Then there's the number of suicides they facilitate. The saying is that guns don't kill people, people kill people, which is true, but people are fallible, foolish, and often downright evil, and the second amendment to the Constitution that gives yanks the right to have guns says, " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The well regulated part is ignored and we have mayhem while people like this asshole who I guess died for what he believed in are running around.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: January 14, 2026 10:51PM

The New South Wales bill is a mix of every wish list by every anti-firearms group:

[www.parliament.nsw.gov.au]

I read it up to this:

[23] Section 31 Permits to acquire firearms

....

[24]
to the Commissioner’s knowledge, has never been
investigated by a Commonwealth or State law
enforcement or intelligence agency for terrorism-related
offences or for association with members of a prescribed
terrorist organisation under the Commonwealth Criminal
Code Act 1995, and

Well that includes me. I've been accused for a long time, and keeping to pattern is how I'll put it, the accusations ramped up after I reported two catholic monks, tubby white haired twins, for downloading child porn at an internet cafe in 2009. Between then and sometime in the 2010's a list of accusations cycled twice. Terrorism was one of them (it goes back a long way, to after I stopped minding creche, mixed with people my own age and obtained a minor's permit for a firearm. The State of New South Wales now requires Working With Children Certificates - a police background check - I've never applied for one.)

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: January 19, 2026 04:41AM

The Commonwealth's response:

What strikes most about this dire piece of legislation is the speed it appeared. It's 155 pages, with explanatory notes twice that length. It's not quite War and Peace, but was it written after 14 December? Whilst both politicians and, no doubt, public servants, were all on holiday for Christmas?

Is it just wish lists cobbled together from the 'right' groups?

Or did they have this ready to go, just waiting for the right opportunity. Just like Port Arthur.