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A few items have come to light Down Under after the Bondi Beach shooting.<\/p>\n
The father and son shooters are said to be Pakistani immigrants (which would make them Muslim immigrants.)<\/p>\n
Police say that the two shooters involved were a father and son aged 50 and 24. They have been named by local media as Sajid Akram and son Naveed Akram.\u00a0\u00a0BBC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed who disarmed the younger of the two father and son shooters is a former Syrian security guy who emigrated to Australia some years back. The injury\u00a0 info on him is conflicted, some saying he was shot once, some saying he was hit multiple times. A GoFund me for him has already surpassed a million dollars, led by a donation\u00a0 of\u00a0 $65,000 from William Ackman, CEO of\u00a0 Pershing Square Capital Management. It should be noted for those who wanted to “ban all Muslim immigrants” that Mr. Ahmed IS a Muslim immigrant.<\/p>\n
Fast observation – Mr. Ahmed chose well in taking on an armed opponent who was using a long gun. Despite the shooter attempting to swing the gun around to get his attacker, he was unable to – had Akram been using a more easily maneuvered handgun, Mr. Ahmed would have possibly been in more jeopardy.<\/p>\n
There have been repeated warnings from the Australian Jewish committee that the rise in anti-Semitism there was going to lead to escalation and possibly a fatal incident. From a senior member of the community, Dionne Taylor:<\/p>\n
“We have been completely let down by our government,” Taylor, the communications manager of the Australia\/Israel Jewish Affairs Council, told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview. “We warned them that this snowball effect was going to happen, and it was only a matter of time before someone got killed.”<\/p>\n
“It started with hate speech,” she said. “Then graffiti. Then public demonstrations. Then firebombing synagogues, preschools, people\u2019s homes, people\u2019s cars. And now murder.”\u00a0\u00a0Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Might think about that when someone tries to excuse problematic pro-Palestinian behavior as “it’s just XXX” or “they really aren’t harming anyone – yet.”<\/p>\n
And, as expected, the Australian government is blaming the guns for the shooting, not the people who did it.<\/p>\n
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead.<\/p>\n
Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain. His proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen \u2014 who were a father and son \u2014 had held a gun license for a decade and amassed his six guns legally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Think our takeaway from that is that tightened gun laws don’t work? Per the New South Wales Premier, Christopher Minns:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means introducing a bill to Parliament to \u2014 I mean to be really blunt \u2014 make it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that have no practical use in our community,\u201d Minns told repoters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re not a farmer, you\u2019re not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons that put the public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales Police?\u201d Minns asked.<\/p>\n
The particular gun license he (Akram – ed.)\u00a0 held entitled an adult with a \u201cgenuine reason\u201d to own a rifle or shotgun. Accepted reasons include target shooting, recreational hunting and vermin control, but self-defense is not an accepted reason.\u00a0 \u00a0KMBC9 News (ABC)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Australia’s gun crime rate is often compared to the US’ since it enacted a sweeping ban on many guns back in the ’90s, although most comparisons omit that the total population of Australia is about as high as only the Southern California population. Oh, and the list of valid reasons to own a gun there does NOT include self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"