By: Kayleigh Hamilton
The gun rights of Americans are under attack by a foreign entity.
They are hoping for a nationwide gun grab.
And now Americans are having to fight tooth and nail to retain their gun rights.
Australia is a country that is notorious for having undergone one of the most Orwellian gun grabs in recent history.
In 1996, they passed the National Firearms Agreement after a mass shooting, forcing their citizens to hand in their guns to be destroyed.
This has turned Australia into an extremely anti-gun country. But for gun grabbers in Australia, that is not enough. They have turned their attention over to the United States.
ABC News in Australia, which stands for Australian Broadcasting Corporation and is not affiliated with the American ABC News, wrote an article painting the United States in a horrible light for allowing gun ownership.
The article was clearly intended to shame Americans into passing gun control and take away weapons just like Australia did back in 1996.
It portrayed America as a hellhole of gun crime, and ignored the fact that most of the crimes that it listed weren’t “mass shootings” at all but were instances of gang violence or personal disputes.
Here is what ABC News in Australia had to say: “There have already been 4,138 deaths linked to gun violence across the United States in 2024, according to independent research organisation the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).
“Among those killed, 355 were children and teenagers. More than 350 incidents were ‘unintentional.’
“GVA defines a ‘mass shooting’ as ‘a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.’”
What they fail to mention is that many of these “mass shootings” are not what any normal person would actually consider to be a mass shooting.
Most people think of a mass shooting as someone walking into a public place and firing wildly into a crowd.
But many of the shootings in this statistic are gang-related shootings that people who aren’t involved in gang warfare don’t have to worry about so long as they avoid those neighborhoods.
The article then goes on to quote a number of Australian professors mocking the U.S. for their love of gun rights.
“University of Melbourne Professor of American Politics, Timothy J Lynch, says for Americans, gun control is more than just an issue with the US government or the legal system.”
Here is what Lynch said: “If there’s a massacre, how do you stop it? You illegalise guns. We did it after the Tasmanian massacre.
“There just seems to be a logic to it, but we don’t have a connection to guns that’s rooted in our culture and history and that’s a very powerful part of our political identity.”
It’s not just a “connection to guns” – it’s a desire to balance power between people and the government.
Australians may not care about that, but Americans certainly do, and we have no intention of handing over our guns to the federal government anytime soon.