Of all the dumb ideas gun control advocates have ever come up with, gun buybacks have to be one of the dumbest. The only time a criminal or terrorist will surrender a weapon as part of one of these reckless schemes is when they give up possible evidence.
So of course, in response to the jihadist terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, the Australian government is proposing to do just that. Look:
🚨Australian Prime Minister Albanese: “Hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/3iig0NabMu
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Redemption at the moment seems voluntary. At least for now; at least the Prime Minister did not come out and say otherwise. But we must remember that Australia does not have a Second Amendment.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national gun buyback scheme to “get more guns off our streets” following the Bondi Beach massacre.
Speaking at a press conference in Canberra on Friday, Albanese said the scheme would purchase surplus, recently banned and illegal firearms. Government will introduce legislation that will help fund the scheme and cover the costs of states and territories, he said.
“We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme,” the Prime Minister added.
Frankly, it would be surprising if dozens of firearms were collected and destroyed following this attack.
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Days after the Bondi Beach attack, Australian police made a dramatic arrest of the group in Sydney.
Of course, this raises several questions:
Who will decide which weapons are surplus? To any gun hunter looking into my safe, my modest collection of pre-64 Winchesters and Belgian Brownings may seem like a bit of an oddity, but neither of them pose a threat to anyone except perhaps the local spruce grouse population.
What weapons have recently been banned? And why?
Not a single word of this pious statement makes any sense. No amount of gun buyback will solve the cause of the Bondi Beach massacre – and by the way, how can the Australian government “buy back” something it didn't own in the first place? This is a useless exercise and nothing more. Even if the Australian government could wave a magic wand, or perhaps a magical didgeridoo, and destroy all working firearms in the country, any jihadist wishing to attack a group of innocent people would simply find another, perhaps much worse, way to do it. We already saw one such terrible method just a year ago.
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I spent most of my career as a corporate consultant training engineers and quality control specialists in cause analysis, and some of my clients were among the largest medical device manufacturers in the world. One hard and fast rule of root cause analysis that I have always emphasized is this: the tool is never the cause. Any event requires an actor. The root cause is always where a person or group of people made a decision; in this case, to attack a crowd of innocent Jews. The decision of these terrorists is the immediate cause; The decision to allow people from parts of the world where the culture is opposed to Western civilization to flood into Australia is a major reason for the support. Australia must now look closely at real solutions to these problems, rather than binary solutions that will allow Prime Minister Albanese and his government to say, “Look, we did something!” This is a brutal calculation that needs to be addressed.
Instead, they are going to take an action that is completely useless and will achieve nothing. There is a word for this reaction from Prime Minister Albanese and the Australian Government:
Impotent.
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