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In America, we don’t need to look to our nation’s leader for an explanation of how it happened. We know it will happen again, likely too many times to count.
But America’s deep, stubborn will against any logical or sensible gun control is what keeps us stuck in this cycle. We must not become numb to the grief, loss and horror of gun violence.
Robin Epley
December 16, 2025
Two mass shootings, two responses: Australia acts while America accepts | Opinion
Ms. Epley, we already have a very logical and sensible gun law on the books. And if it was enforced it would dramatically reduce the number of mass shootings. The problem is there is not enough political will to enforce it.
Maybe you have heard of this law. It is called the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It can and should be enforced via 18 USC 241 and 242.
How very Costal.
Ms. Epley seems to lack the self-awareness to realize that Australia reacted to mass “gun violence” decades ago … and still experienced the Bondi Beach massacre.
Perhaps the reason America “accepts” is because we can see other countries “react” and nevertheless fail to curb “gun violence”.
The colloquial definition of insanity is attempting the same action over and over again and expecting a different result. Following mass “gun violence,” every nation on the planet — including America — has implemented comprehensive “gun control,” and failed to reduce “gun violence.” And so we watch other countries with even tighter “gun control” than ours continue to experience “gun violence,” we determine that the same actions produce the same results, and decide we don’t want to continue the insanity.
No, Ms. Epley, America doesn’t “accept” violence as the norm. We just see that “gun control” doesn’t fix the problem, and have no interest in feel-good measures that don’t provide real results. Other countries can do what they want, but no matter how tight their controls get, they’ll still fall victim to occasional mass violence.
Sorry-not-sorry for not wanting to give up our essential rights just to be yet another data point in the same trend.
Gun control is not useless, it enables mass violence.
Robin’s ideas fit neatly into the standard communist niche.
And as always seems to forget how we got here. The criminality that brought to this point.
From the importation of slaves after 1803 to the open borders of today. The brainwashing of our youth. (Schools of today bring a whole new meaning to the term, “concentration camps”. )
To the outright lies, collusion, conspiracy, treason, and subversion of our legal system. To the point true black letter law is almost lost. Or even mentioned outside criminal courts. And only then against a political “deplorable”.
But true to form (I.E. brainwashing.) Robin’s problem includes fixing none of the real problems. Only giving the communist some more feel good about nothing, Useful idiotry.
And as like most things communist, The unintended consequence of her words show us the real problem, which is Robin herself.
We have this from the master, Thomas Sowell;
” If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization. Be prepared to accept barbarism.”
The choice has always been ours.
Absolutely fascinating to watch the Aussies leaders launch an immediate knee jerk reaction to show that they are going to do more about gun control. Yep, new measures targeted squarely at people that are already abiding by the law. Maybe that was because the perps in the Bondi shooting were already compliant with the existing requirements. After the Port Arthur shooting, all semiautomatic rifles were confiscated & destroyed. Can’t have any rapid fire weapons, dontcha know! And then there was some video from Bondi Beach showing one of the shooters cycling his bolt rifle repeatedly in less than a second. A lot of good that law did.
What I still don’t understand is why the guy that grabbed the one perp’s gun just didn’t shoot him! It would have been great if he had also started firing back at the other perp on the bridge. Odds are the shooting would have ended much sooner.