This is what a rational reaction looks like.

[JanetTheGreat]

Here's a better reaction. Each citizen is required to carry a weapon for self protection. The moment a bad guy pulls his gun, he's met with a barrage of citizen fire power. Stop being sheeple on the way to slaughter. Be lions.

If anything people should be even more armed. If the shooter knew that EVERYONE around him was armed, he may not have done it. If everyone is armed and someone pulls a gun with intention to do a mass shooting, they'll be shot dead on the scene and rightfully so by someone around them. Without being well armed in public you are a sitting duck to criminals who are armed.

 

[YoursTruly]

Here's a better reaction. Each citizen is required to carry a weapon for self protection. The moment a bad guy pulls his gun, he's met with a barrage of citizen fire power. Stop being sheeple on the way to slaughter. Be lions.

That sounds good in theory. And I agree, a LOT more decent folks should carry. If everyone did carry, a lot more bad guys would get shot.

But so would a lot more innocent people.

There'd be people getting shot over parking spots. Or because they didn't get pickles on their burger at the fast food joint.

 

[berg80]

Another lie.
You just keep piling them up like cord wood.

I'm citing empirical studies. Sorry if you don't like the findings.

 

[berg80]

That sounds good in theory. And I agree, a LOT more decent folks should carry. If everyone did carry, a lot more bad guys would get shot.

But so would a lot more innocent people.

There'd be people getting shot over parking spots. Or because they didn't get pickles on their burger at the fast food joint.

Not to mention an increase in accidental shootings. Like kids getting a hold of the gun in the house and shooting someone by mistake.

It isn't a coincidence that what Australia did after the mass killing there years ago resulted in no mass killings since until a few days ago.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control After Mass Shooting​

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.

Most Australians felt certain that things at home were different. After all, three decades ago, it took just 12 days after a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, for the country to adopt sweeping gun ownership restrictions. For two decades after the carnage, there wasn’t a single mass shooting in Australia.

The shooting, which left at least 15 dead and scores wounded, has forced a hard look at gun control in Australia — how the number of licensed firearms had steadily risen over the years, how some of the pledged changes were never fully implemented, how the country had gotten complacent in three decades largely free of this particular brand of indiscriminate terror.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/australia-gun-control-bondi-shooting.html

Governments are suppose to be designed to be responsive to the wishes of the majority. To solve problems the majority want solved.

AI Overview

Yes, recent polls consistently show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control laws in general. For example, polls conducted in late 2024 and 2025 found that 56% to 60% of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter.

It has been an epic failure of governance that the US continues to essentially do nothing about the annual, mass slaughter of Americans.

This is not a rational reaction to the Bondi Beach massacre. All the left wing antisemites are yelling gun control! gun control, but if you point out the guns were used by fanatical Islamists to kill Jews, they yell, Islamophobia! Islamophobia!

The Australian government has allowed the seeds of antisemitic hatred to blossom on Australian soil and added to it with passionate anti Israel rants, all to avoid offending fanatically antisemitic Muslim countries, and has tried to defend this incitement to violence with whimpers about free speech, and now this same guilty government pretends to be surprised when all this anti Israel/antisemitic incitement manifests itself at Bondi Beach.

 

[MagicMike]

Here's a better reaction. Each citizen is required to carry a weapon for self protection. The moment a bad guy pulls his gun, he's met with a barrage of citizen fire power. Stop being sheeple on the way to slaughter. Be lions.

You watch a lot of action movies don't you?
We live in a society where people have to be warned not to eat Tide Pods and you want to see these same people walking among us with loaded weapons?

 

[pknopp]

If anything people should be even more armed. If the shooter knew that EVERYONE around him was armed, he may not have done it. If everyone is armed and someone pulls a gun with intention to do a mass shooting, they'll be shot dead on the scene and rightfully so by someone around them. Without being well armed in public you are a sitting duck to criminals who are armed.

How many armed people were around when Trump was shot at?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control After Mass Shooting​

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.

Most Australians felt certain that things at home were different. After all, three decades ago, it took just 12 days after a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, for the country to adopt sweeping gun ownership restrictions. For two decades after the carnage, there wasn’t a single mass shooting in Australia.

The shooting, which left at least 15 dead and scores wounded, has forced a hard look at gun control in Australia — how the number of licensed firearms had steadily risen over the years, how some of the pledged changes were never fully implemented, how the country had gotten complacent in three decades largely free of this particular brand of indiscriminate terror.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/australia-gun-control-bondi-shooting.html

Governments are suppose to be designed to be responsive to the wishes of the majority. To solve problems the majority want solved.

AI Overview

Yes, recent polls consistently show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control laws in general. For example, polls conducted in late 2024 and 2025 found that 56% to 60% of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter.

It has been an epic failure of governance that the US continues to essentially do nothing about the annual, mass slaughter of Americans.

That looks like Mao's China or Stalin's USSR

 

[westwall]

That sounds good in theory. And I agree, a LOT more decent folks should carry. If everyone did carry, a lot more bad guys would get shot.

But so would a lot more innocent people.

There'd be people getting shot over parking spots. Or because they didn't get pickles on their burger at the fast food joint.

For a short time, maybe. But the violent assholes get culled fairly quickly.

 

[MarcATL]

Here's a better reaction. Each citizen is required to carry a weapon for self protection. The moment a bad guy pulls his gun, he's met with a barrage of citizen fire power. Stop being sheeple on the way to slaughter. Be lions.

 

[BackAgain]

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control After Mass Shooting​

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.

Most Australians felt certain that things at home were different. After all, three decades ago, it took just 12 days after a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, for the country to adopt sweeping gun ownership restrictions. For two decades after the carnage, there wasn’t a single mass shooting in Australia.

The shooting, which left at least 15 dead and scores wounded, has forced a hard look at gun control in Australia — how the number of licensed firearms had steadily risen over the years, how some of the pledged changes were never fully implemented, how the country had gotten complacent in three decades largely free of this particular brand of indiscriminate terror.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/australia-gun-control-bondi-shooting.html

Governments are suppose to be designed to be responsive to the wishes of the majority. To solve problems the majority want solved.

AI Overview

Yes, recent polls consistently show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control laws in general. For example, polls conducted in late 2024 and 2025 found that 56% to 60% of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter.

It has been an epic failure of governance that the US continues to essentially do nothing about the annual, mass slaughter of Americans.

You misspelled irrational.

 

[YoursTruly]

For a short time, maybe. But the violent assholes get culled fairly quickly.

I don't think so. It's possible. But people would just find another way to shoot folks.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control After Mass Shooting​

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.

Most Australians felt certain that things at home were different. After all, three decades ago, it took just 12 days after a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, for the country to adopt sweeping gun ownership restrictions. For two decades after the carnage, there wasn’t a single mass shooting in Australia.

The shooting, which left at least 15 dead and scores wounded, has forced a hard look at gun control in Australia — how the number of licensed firearms had steadily risen over the years, how some of the pledged changes were never fully implemented, how the country had gotten complacent in three decades largely free of this particular brand of indiscriminate terror.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/australia-gun-control-bondi-shooting.html

Governments are suppose to be designed to be responsive to the wishes of the majority. To solve problems the majority want solved.

AI Overview

Yes, recent polls consistently show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control laws in general. For example, polls conducted in late 2024 and 2025 found that 56% to 60% of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter.

It has been an epic failure of governance that the US continues to essentially do nothing about the annual, mass slaughter of Americans.

Repeal the second amendment.

 

[YoursTruly]

Not to mention an increase in accidental shootings. Like kids getting a hold of the gun in the house and shooting someone by mistake.

It isn't a coincidence that what Australia did after the mass killing there years ago resulted in no mass killings since until a few days ago.

True enough. But if the justice system won't keep these violent, gun toting POS's in prison, decent folks gotta protect themselves.

Both sides have legit reasons.

 

[BackAgain]

Repeal the second amendment.

Does Australia have a second amendment?

 

[blackhawk]

Amusing considering Australia already has very strict gun control laws that didn’t stop these two.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Trump pretty much is 100% responsible for every mass shooting.

He is even responsible for his own shooting, which we all know was a hoax.

He paid the guy to shoot him in the ear and then get killed by the Secret Service.

That, or did he bend down and apply ketchup to his face?

 

[marvin martian]

How many armed people were around when Trump was shot at?

Not enough, clearly, since your fellow loon still hit him.

 

[pknopp]

Not enough, clearly, since your fellow loon still hit him.

I heard it was some guy that was named Marvin something or another........

 

[marvin martian]

I heard it was some guy that was named Marvin something or another........

I'm sure you did. I know where you get your information.