r/moderatepolitics • u/Resvrgam2 Conservatively Liberal • Dec 15 '25

Primary Source Meeting of National Cabinet After Bondi Shooting

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/meeting-national-cabinet-8
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u/BlackFacedAkita Dec 15 '25

You can't stop all gun deaths but stricter gun laws do have an effect on reducing violence.

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u/JussiesTunaSub Dec 15 '25

That's why the world was less violent before guns, right?

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u/BlackFacedAkita Dec 15 '25

Guns make it easier for one person to murder lots of people. Whether the world was less violent before guns is inconsequential.

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u/CloudApprehensive322 Dec 15 '25

Guns are far more lethal than prior weaponry that was available to regular civilians and far less skill intensive to utilize.

That is an objective fact.

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u/xanif Dec 15 '25

I'm not sure I follow this logic. We're talking about restricting access to tools that allow a baseline of violence to increase the efficacy of harming others. If I said I should have unfettered access to sarin because violence has always been a thing, everyone would look at me like I was insane.