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After the Bondi Beach terror attack, the Prime Minister’s response was a gun buyback scheme. This misses the point entirely — the problem isn’t guns, it’s radical Islamism.

Why did 15 Australians – most of them Jews – die on Bondi Beach last year?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet that not a single reader answered that question with: “Well, James, those people died because guns killed them.”

Yes, guns were used in the attack, but those Jewish Australians were killed by Islamists.

That’s what Islamists do. They kill Jews. And if they can’t kill Jews, they’re quite partial to killing Christians.

We see it all around the world – as the pro-Palestinian keffiyeh brigade love to remind us.

How does it go again?

From Gadigal to Gaza?

Islamists kill people with guns.

And if they can’t get guns, Islamists use knives.

And if they can’t get knives, Islamists use cars. Or planes. Or whatever else they can get their hands on.

We all know this.

I’m just not sure the Prime Minister knows this.

The PM’s Non-Answer

On Sunday morning, kicking off the New South Wales gun buyback scheme, he told journalists:

Following the deeply antisemitic terrorist attack, on Bondi beach on the 14th of December National Cabinet stood in solidarity and met the next day. We agreed on action to eradicate antisemitism and to strengthen gun laws across the nation.

So there you have it.

Following a terrorist attack, the National Cabinet decided to eradicate antisemitism by strengthening gun laws.

What’s infuriating to me is that the PM still can’t bring himself to say anything about Islam which – as the term radical Islam implies – would seem to be the seedbed of this antisemitism he claims to want to eradicate.

If you want to eradicate the antisemitism that leads to Jewish synagogues being attacked and Jewish Australians being murdered, maybe look at where the murderous antisemitism is coming from.

Maybe stop importing people from places where Islamic radicalism is flourishing.

Maybe stop repatriating people who left these shores to join ISIS.

Labor’s Political Bind

The problem is that Labor wants to eradicate antisemitism without upsetting one of their core constituencies.

So we end up with rubbish like this from the normally sensible NSW Premier Chris Minns:

We are doing this deliberately to get guns out of circulation in our community to ensure that we don’t have another terrorism event or to do everything we possibly can to ensure we don’t have another terrorism event in our state.

This is Federal Labor’s version of Victoria’s machete-bin policy.

And it’ll be about as effective.

Which is to say: it won’t do anything to stop radical Islamic terror attacks.

The Real Enemy

NSW Opposition leader Kellie Sloane knew what was what:

To suggest a gun buyback is going to stop another Bondi, is absolute bullshit.

Sorry for the language it’s entirely unlike me but I am frustrated.

We need to make sure we are addressing the real enemy. I can tell you the real enemy is not a farmer, and it is not a law abiding sporting shooter. That is not the real enemy.

She’s absolutely right.

Law-abiding people will hand back their guns.

And I know Anthony Albanese will find this hard to believe, but bad guys won’t hand back their guns.

The fact is that guns don’t hate people.

Knives don’t hate people.

And cars don’t hate people.

Actually, I once owned a Datsun 180B that I’m pretty sure hated me. But I digress.

Islamists hate Jews. They want to kill Jews.

So instead of buying back guns, perhaps we could try something genuinely radical.

Why don’t we send back the Islamists?

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Adobe.