What The US Can Learn From Australian Gun Reform

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   @LeejaMiller

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

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   @Sandgroper_MCMLIV

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   Nearly 40% of Australians do not follow any religion, and that probably makes a difference – religious conservatism isn't as prevalent and coupled with stricter gun laws makes it a far less dangerous place than the US.

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   @Piggypiglets

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   I remember when gun ownership was not uncommon in Australia, particularly in rural and urban fringe/semi urban areas. Mostly rifles but no one thought too much about it. I would go target shooting on Sunday school outings and I shot a gun in high school with a fast film camera set up with known shutter speed to determine the speed of the bullet.

   And now the majority of people in Australia are very happy with our strict gun laws. And our kids don’t need to consider if their backpacks should be bulletproof and kids don’t go through active shooter drills.

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   @DeannaVanVelsen-jh7ys

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

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   @lindasweeney969

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   So glad I was born in Australia, the more I learn how the U.S. functions it baffles me why anyone would choose the U.S. to immigrate to. No country is perfect but the U.S. has the most bizarre and unjust laws that would never be accepted here. All Australians vote, yes it’s compulsory but the fine is actually peanuts it’s just used as more incentive than anything else. But it encourages you to think about what politicians say and vote with purpose. We choose to have a fair system for our people and fight for what is right. We do have freedom of speech and our media are not muzzled or insulted by our politicians. Yes inflation hit Australia after covid, just as it did in America and pretty much every country. The U.S, is not unique and politicians saying they can drop prices to zero is laughable. It’s not that easy. Recovering from the havoc covid caused will take a long time. Changing gun laws for safety and a less stressful life should be the easiest decision a politician makes for our children.

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   @morgainedelahoy5889

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   Hi! Young adult Aussie here. We don't have guns because we don't NEED guns. I can't imagine a situation where I would need a gun. We are a country that is supposed to run on togetherness and co-operation. The government at the time of Port Arthur was right: there is no reason for normal citizens to own semi-automatic or automatic guns. It's insane.

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   @denisestarr2314

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   With the rise of fascism and violence, you want to dis arm people.
   No way . Dems keep pushing gun bans they will lose again.

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   @staticlimpet

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   At some point, we need to accept that the United States in 2025 is a third-world country. Corrupt Authoritarian Leader✅Uncontained Gun Violence ✅Failed Justice Systems ✅

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   @natalieedelstein

   January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

   The fact that people understand the 2nd amendment doesn't grant the right to own a 💣 but they can't apply the same logic to the right to own a 🔫 is crazy. I'm not saying that the right needs to be completely eliminated but more checks need to be in place before one is permitted to own one.

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    @Dragonwolf77

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    It’s time Americans should change or updated your constitution..especially your second amendment..

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    @nathanhayes8228

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    if you posit that "gUn ViOlEnCe" is bad now, just wait till you try to force police and national guardsmen to confiscate weapons door to door sweetie. oh, but do please tell me about how you could afford a national buy-back program.

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    @needbettername8583

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    I think whats screwing me up more is that the American right has jumped on the fact Australia is clamping down on guns again, like they did after port arthur.

    I mean, really? Do they really want to ride that train?

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    @letitiajeavons6333

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Evangelicals aren't the only Christians. I was raised Quaker with occasional forays to a Church of the Brethren congregation (an Anabaptist group) and a liberal United Methodist Church (Mainline Protestant). Two out 3 Historic Peace Churches. Not all Christians revere guns.

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    @M3licious

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Our mass shootings are usually DV where the husband shoots his wife, children, and himself. Because the definition states it is usually 3+ people for a mass shootings by one shooter…..
    Take that into account while you are looking at Australian statistics.
    DV here is a lot more troubling than guns. More women die in a week, than men in a year. It is terrible. Then you add dead children…. Honestly people don't need 40+ guns.
    It's not even hard to get guns here in Australia, it's just a long and drawn out process. It's still harder to get a boat license.

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    @tphotos3485

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Ahmed el Ahmed is going to eat free at every pub in Australia for the rest of his life. I feel like he'll probably be the next Australian of the Year. That kind of strength of character deserves to be admired and rewarded – he demonstrated more of what Australia is supposed to stand for in about 90 seconds than many others do in a lifetime.

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    @johnriddington9514

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Remember that time in 2012 that one of you massacred 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook AND YOU'VE DONE NOTHING ABOUT YOUR GUN LAWS. You muppets are too wilfully ignorant to learn anything from us about gun reform.

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    @BigAl53750

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Stop the BS. The official designation of a mass shooting is more than three people, which is hardly MASSES of victims.

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    @Respectable_Username

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    There's not a lot of good things I could say about John Howard. However, his introduction of such strict gun control in Australia is something I will forever be grateful to him for. Growing up in a world without the fear of gun violence is a freedom so many of us just take for granted here in Australia, and it's absurd when we see America not follow suit!

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    @aussieshooter8

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    There are more contributing factors to the American attitude to guns than just the constitution and religion and comparing Australias situation in 1996 and America today is so far from reality that its pointless to even try to compare them. At the time we had about 20 million people living in the entire country. You have multiple states in the US that exceed that amount by almost double. So trying to apply a buyback scheme to current day America will not work the same for all states, and some will refuse it entirely (as is their right). So it becomes a geographical issue because if the rules aren't applied homogenously, then they become pointless as crossing state lines is not regulated. Secondly it is a financial issue. There are more guns than people in the US. Doing a buyback for that amount of weapons "at market value" would be an astronomcial cost to the taxpayers who are already in a financial ruins after COVID. That isn't even considering the rarest of machine guns, which at current market value can be worth as much at $20000, sometimes more. Also with removing them it would only increase their value further, thus incentivising people to not cooperate with the buyback.
    This also leaves the issue that the only people who abide by this scheme will be the law aboding citizens of the US, leaving the criminals as the only remaining armed people.
    The way I see it from a logical point of view is that in being the worlds leading gun manufacturers, the US achieved a critical mass of firearms that cannot be undone with any legislation. They simply need to find a way to live with them, which unfortunately means they have to rely on more mental health services, more thorough background checks, red flag laws and… I know its controversial… more responsible armed citizens. Put simply, people living in the US need to take accountability for their own safety in these times. I know for certain if I was living there I would need to be armed to feel safe. Its a sorry state of affairs but those are my two cents.

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    @frklsa

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    children should not have to be scared of going to school because of gun violence.

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    @R045T_B33F

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    I'm an American gun enthusiast and I've upheld gun rights for as long as I can remember but I have also advocated for intense licensing and mental wellness checks for gun owners both before and multiple times after the purchase of a firearm. Though I still believe a system like that could work, I no longer think the American government is capable of its implementation. We've eliminated so many of our social safety nets that our society has economically become all or nothing. Bet all your money and live in a mansion or lose everything and be stuck in a 200 square foot apartment with no income. Giving virtually free gun access to a society based around extreme actions will always breed extreme consequences. I am still a gun enthusiast, but if I have to choose between keeping my AR 15 and the deaths of thousands of innocent people, I'm giving up the gun.

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    @mariehavlickova4702

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

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    @MatthewFelgate-r4u

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Youre using percentages. The people you hope to educate on this cant understand percentages. I agree with everything you are saying but the way you are saying it mesns you are preaching to the converted. Can you say the same thing without saying the words "percent" or "percentage"? Percentages are a mystery not only to the president of the united states but also to a substantial proportion of your population.

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    @waifubreaks1572

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Gun control doesn't work. Politicians and CEOs want you disarmed, and no amount of gun control will stop radical Muslims from committing terrorism.

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    @rabokarabekian409

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Jim Jeffries told us years ago to consider that an illegal assault rifle in Ozzyland would cost at least $30K and won't be sold to just any random nitwit.
    The cost of a semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle in the U$A typically ranges from $500 for entry-level models to over $3,000 for high-end, customized versions. That is completely legal retail.
    There is zero checking how any U$A firearms are stored or used.
    Between 2015 and 2024 in the U$A, more than 1,100 preschoolers and toddlers ages five and under shot someone or themselves.

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    @geelpee

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    haven't checked in for a while, my loss… happy to be getting your view on all the things

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    @chrstopherblighton-sande2981

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Interesting that Leeja correctly points out that immigrants are not responsible for the hatred and often violence directed towards them because of the actions of other migrants and yet once again there was the not very veiled suggestion that somehow Jews are responsible – through the actions of the Israeli government – for the hatred and violence directed against them. I long for the days of consistent ethics, something the left as well as the right have thrown into the garbage.

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    @silentblackhole

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    RE: The constitution

    The Constitution should be a living breathing document that reflects the current day environment. The founding fathers would never have considered the Constitution a complete, perfect document, needing no change whatsoever. After all there’s a reason why the constitution has amendments!

    The constitution should be amended on the topic of guns.

    The reason why there was a need for civilians to be able to bare arms no longer exist in 2025.

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    @silentblackhole

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    I’m from Sydney, and it’s disingenuous for Netanyahu to blame Australian authorities for this. The broader context matters: two years of devastating violence in Gaza has inflamed tensions globally. You don’t get to ignore that reality and then point fingers abroad.

    Netanyahu failed to prevent the October 7 attacks in Israel itself — his own security services were caught off guard, and he did not have control of the situation even on the day. By contrast, in Australia, police were on the scene within minutes and the attacker was incapacitated in around ten. That’s what competent policing looks like.

    Australia’s intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have an exceptional record. Mass-casualty attacks of this kind are extraordinarily rare here — the last comparable incident was decades ago. Blaming Australian authorities isn’t just wrong, it’s an attempt to deflect responsibility from the consequences of his own government’s actions.

    If you want it more aggressive, shorter, or less formal, say which direction to push it.

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    @melanieward9615

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    30 years not 3

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    @jam-the-hologram

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    This is an extremely well made video! Very professional

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    @maclectic

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    How to avoid being in a mass shooting in The USA is avoiding any areas that gang members congregate.

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    @JonGreen22

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    MY mum back in the early 1990s had your same glasses, i thought they were cringey back then. My position has not changed. – mean i'd rather listen to my mum because you a spouting actual bullshit. Swallow it and fuck off

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    @chika4427

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Went to an Australian university. One day there was an attack where a student pulled a baseball bat from his bag and started beating the lecturer up. Some injuries, no deaths. There was a collective "thank god Australia has strong gun control" sentiment on campus back then

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    @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Religion, like the beast that it is, will always bite you in the butt. Neither the bible nor the constitution are the word of some imaginary deity. They are written by fallible human beings. If Jesus turned up now, he’d be in jail by next week.

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    @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Americans have watched too many Hollywood movies, they all imagine they are gunslinging cowboys like John Wayne. They think that pulling a pistol and capping someone is glamorous.

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    @Promethean_Gaming

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    You Americans do realise that when we Aussies have 20 gun deaths, it makes international news. In America, over 20 gun deaths happen daily. You people are strange.

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    @latestagelarper

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    I’m an Australian.

    I have tried many times to talk to Americans about their gun laws and ridiculous ideas about having firearms

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    @gabrielle7893

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Hey – thought this video would be interesting, considering the violence in Bondi this week: https://youtu.be/-WSf_vAL2WE?si=cqJVcIlz26dSTzva

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    @AnnaSmith-y9j

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    You I've heard that the kinder surprise is not legally able to be sold in the US as it's a 'safety' issue due to having a toy inside, while it's fully labelled and that's the point of the chocolate. Everyone knows not to eat the toy. But anyone can get a gun in the US which has no other use than to hurt others. How does this safety factor work??

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    @Jono-pomDownunder

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    It's been 30years since we've had a mass shooting
    Since 1996, there have been over 1 million U.S. gun deaths, with estimates from sources like the CDC data and other research bodies suggesting a cumulative total of approximately 1.1 million fatalities between 1996 and 2024.

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    @han.fletcher

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    PERIODDDD you’re an absolute queen for this. I love Australia, a lot of us aren’t blind to the fact that we are incredibly lucky to have grown up in the safety of gun reform. I’m 29 and I’ve never seen a gun in my entire life. The ultimate idea of gun ownership in America is to bear arms against a radical government, like HELLOOOO you’re there, clock in guys

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    @mmogaddict

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    After Sandy Hook, the US lost all respect around the world for it's so called gun culture. If that wasn't enough for the US to make sensible gun control laws then nothing will. Frankly lets build a wall around the US and keep you lot inside.

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    @paulthird3942

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    As an Australian who knows that if anyone in America on terrorist watch list or relative of was to try & purchase a firearm the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center would be notified. I know something that simple would have prevented the Bondi shooting.

    Dont ever look at my country as an example of how to handle firearms control.

    Search any of Australias local news networks you will see why gun statistics are way down. Crime has skyrocketed, its common for groups of criminals to break into houses while people sleep & try to rob them as they know 90% of our citizens are unarmed and the ones that are would face jail themselves if they actually used their firearms on home invaders.

    Our government disarms its citizens and hides behind armed gaurds and private residence for there own protection.

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    @EvilOdysseus

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    In Australia, we did a buyback scheme to hep insentivise people to hand over their guns. A lot of people were against it at the time. Years later, those same people were asked about it and aditted they were wrong and the country was better off without guns.
    America's population is 10 times more than Australia, but a buyback scheme would probably work

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    @bowerbird5808

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    And never forget the main person behind the gun reform in Australia was also one of our most conservative Prime Ministers ever to hold that office

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    @karencramer6491

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Dear America, here is your starter pack for disarming threats. 1 Shopping Trolley, 1 Milk Crate and 1 Grocer. No guns required. T&P Australia.

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    @Aileron1241

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Many people think that immigration is a bad thing, yet the person who probably saved a lot of lives, risking his own well-being, was an immigrant.

    Edit: oh you pointed that out already – whoops

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    @craigmcdonald8856

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    These companies are making a white board that is bullet proof

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    @Pethaudel

    January 3, 2026 at 7:51 am

    Wonderfully insightful.
    I would love to visit lots of places in the USA, but unfortunately I suspect that will never happen. I cannot take my family to a place where gun violence is prolific.

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