Of all the stupid ideas that gun-control advocates have ever come up with, gun "buybacks" have to be one of the stupidest. The only time a criminal or terrorist would surrender a weapon in one of these harebrained schemes is when they're ditching possible evidence.
So, of course, in response to the Bondi Beach jihadi terrorist attack, the Australian government is proposing to do just that. Watch:
🚨Australian PM Albanese: "Hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected & destroyed." pic.twitter.com/3iig0NabMu
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The buyback, for the moment, appears to be voluntary. For now, anyway; at least, the PM hasn't come right out and stated otherwise. But, we must remember, there is no Second Amendment in Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national buy-back scheme for firearms to “get more guns off our streets” following the Bondi Beach massacre.
Speaking at a press conference in Canberra on Friday, Albanese said the scheme would buy surplus, newly banned, and illegal firearms. The government would introduce legislation to help with the funding of the scheme and meet the cost with states and territories, he said.
“We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme,” the prime minister added.
Honestly, after this attack, it would be surprising if dozens of firearms were collected and destroyed through this scheme.
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Of course, this raises a few questions:
Who gets to decide which guns are surplus? To any gun-grabber who looked in my safe, my modest collection of pre-64 Winchesters and Belgian Brownings might seem like surplus, but none of them pose a danger to anyone, other than possibly the local spruce grouse population.
What guns have been newly banned? And why?
Not one syllable of this pious pronouncement makes any sense. No gun buyback is going to address the cause of the Bondi Beach massacre - and by the way, how can the Australian government "buy back" anything they didn't own in the first place? This is an exercise in futility, and nothing more. Even if the Australian government could wave a magic wand, or perhaps a magic didgeridoo, and erase every working firearm in the country, any jihadi who wants to attack a gathering of innocent people will just find another, possibly much worse way to do so. We've already seen one such horrific method, only a year ago.
I spent much of my career as a corporate consultant teaching engineers and quality control professionals how to do cause analysis, and some of my clients were among the biggest medical manufacturers in the world. One hard rule in root cause analysis, which I always emphasized, was this: A tool is never a cause. Any event requires an actor. Root cause is always found where a person or a group of people made a decision; in this case, to attack a crowd of innocent Jews. The decision of these terrorist attackers is the immediate cause; the decision to allow people from parts of the world where the culture is opposed to Western civilization to flood into Australia is a major supporting cause. Australia now must look hard at actual solutions to these causes, not at band-aid solutions that allow PM Albanese and his government to proclaim, "Look, we did something!" That's the brutal calculus that must be resolved.
Instead, they're going for an action that is utterly futile and which will accomplish nothing. There's a word for this kind of reaction from PM Albanese and the Australian government:
Impotent.
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