Quote of the Day
Bondi proved that Australia’s gun laws are broken and we can no longer delay fixing them, bipartisan support or not. There is no way that guns able to fire one bullet a second and eight bullets without reloading – which was the capacity of the guns used to kill 15 people and injure another 40 at Bondi – conform to either the spirit and intent of the NFA.
Leslie Cannold
January 15, 2026
Australia’s Broken Gun Laws: A Call for Reform – The Jewish Independent
I just have to shake my head. She wants to restrict the rate of fire to below one round per second? There go revolvers, pump shotguns, and lever action rifles. I’ll bet some people with some bolt action rifles could even match that speed. So, she would have it be only derringers, muzzle loaders, and double-barreled rifles and shotguns as legal guns?
But, of course, that will be considered a feature instead of a bug in her “fixing” of their gun laws.
If President Trump wanted to do some high-end trolling, I think he could get some really “quality” reactions if he advocated for sanctions on countries that deny their citizens basic human rights like the right to keep and bear arms. He should start with Australia, Canada, and England because, as of 250 years ago they had the same gun legal history as the U.S. I would find moving the Overton Window on people like Cannold to be quite entertaining.
And after that, pointy knives.
And after that, hammers.
And after that, vehicles.
It’s faith. Completely unfalsifiable. No evidence is sufficient.
All this from an assumption that government power is capable or inclined to solve a problem that they begin by misidentifying.
Cut to the chase: for what they propose to do, it will not be successful until 2/3 of the population are cops. One citizen being watched during their waking moments by two monitors, each of which is half watching the citizen and half watching the other monitor. Of course, to pay for this, the citizen is going to have to be doing something exceptionally productive to essentially fund the lifestyle of three people. Further, to keep the citizens and monitors from getting comfortable with each other to the point where they might conspire, they’ll have to be constantly rotated.
On the plus side, we’ve solved the unemployment problem, so there is no need for a welfare system.
On the downside, there literally is no slack in the system for someone that is neither productive nor able to fully perform the duties of a monitor (which does include physically intervening to stop violence or criminality), so the MAID becomes MAIDitory.
It strikes me a bizarre that Jews, of all people, think that government will protect them. Even the Israeli government failed on 10/7. Others are worse and some actively try to kill Jews.
Some Jews, in particular Orthodox Jews, appear to understand this just fine. That’s why the JPFO exists, and why Robert Avrech wrote his amazing essay “Jew without a gun” (look for it).
10/7 was the greatest success the jews ever had since ’45. Yeah for a couple hundred or so, bad times, but look at what they got post event, Bibi got all the pesky investigations and jail time worries postponed, gaza has been razed to the ground, Syria has been shattered, h-ballah in lebanon has some bad pageritis and been rendered ineffective,some leaders of h-mas got tagged in Doha, got it’s loyal and stupid golem USA to do more bidding in aid and bombing Iran, although like some of what they do, smart on tactics, not so much on strategy, Iran showed they can be hit back and hurt them, same as houtis showed theyre a honey badger and DGAF, oh yeah, the western world aged 40 and under cant stand ’em and don’t believe them anymore. So maybe some big problems down the road, but for today, Greater Israel and Heavenly Jerusalem projects are still a go. Can’t make an omlete without breaking a few eggs.