Perhaps the United States should try to be more like Australia.
A day after Sunday's mass shooting at a Jewish gathering in Bondi Beach left 15 people dead, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wasted no time in moving to tighten gun laws.
“Consideration that will be undertaken includes limiting the number of guns a person can own, the type of guns that are legal, whether gun ownership should require Australian citizenship, and accelerating work on a national firearms registry,” he said during press conference Monday.
“The government is ready to take any necessary measures.”
On the other hand, the United States appears to have its own way of dealing with mass shootings—and it's worse than doing nothing.
Here in the land of the free and the brave, our legislators do not write gun control laws. They post on X spreading baseless conspiracy theories.
Rep. Michael Rulli, a MAGA member from Ohio, posted about the weekend shooting at Brown University, arguing that Ella Cook, one of the victims and vice president of the brown chapter of the College Republicans of America, was targeted because of her conservative beliefs.
“They tried to kill Trump. They killed Charlie Kirk. Now they killed Ella Cook. The left wants us all dead and there's no denying it anymore,” he said. wrote.
And Rulli was not alone: Several right figures put forward the theory that Cook was targeted.
Of course, none of them bothered to mention Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, the Uzbek neurology student who was also killed on Saturday, or the eight other people wounded in the shooting. Meanwhile, action movie not yet in custody or identified.
At the same time, Yahoo News spread the story without a source, Right-wing media concocted a story that the Brown University shooter said “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire on a group of students studying for a final economics exam.
But at least we have freedom, right?
