McKenzie, a shooting enthusiast, said limiting gun ownership from law-abiding farmers and sportspeople was the wrong response. She slammed Albanese’s move to include hate speech and gun rules in the same bill.

“If he was really serious, he would take on his own constituency in western Sydney and deal with the actual problem at its source.”

Hate it when the Liberal party make a good point ☹️

I feel like we already have enough rules, it's quite clear to me there was an intelligence failure not a legal one

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Intelligence can’t keep the entire population under surveillance and run precrime on people who are otherwise not suspects. For one, the idea that anyone could suddenly become a suspect because an algorithm determines from their credit card record, instant messaging keywords and/or fitness tracker readings that they may be suspicious is incompatible with a liberal society. Secondly, it wouldn’t work: terrorism is so rare that even an accurate algorithm would get mostly false positives.

Making it harder to get and keep guns does work. Civilians don’t need military-grade assault rifles in general, farmers don’t need an entire arsenal of firearms, and sporting shooters can keep their firearms in a secure locker at an accredited club facility, as they do in other countries.