Surprising take on Australia’s gun laws from Senator Babet from Victoria on Saturday. He says there is “mathematical certainty” that future generations will suffer.
In this reality, Australians have benefitted from the reforms instituted by the Howard Government. Since the National Firearms Agreement was introduced and the government bought-back 600,000 firearms there has not been a single mass shooting in Australia. Firearms homicides and suicides have drastically decreased. There is still room for improvement though. Australia has a higher firearm homicide rate per capita than Spain, Germany, the UK, South Korea and Japan.
Rather than a constitutional amendment to give Australians the right to bear arms, Australia Institute polling shows that most Australians (64%) think our gun laws should be tougher.
There’s more to do on firearm reform and it doesn’t involve outlier positions such as trying to model our legislation after the United States where there were nearly 500 mass shootings last year.
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I can think of a few things more pressing than putting a 'right to bear arms' into the constitution… a right that was never there in the first place.