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Australia Proves Gun Control Doesn't Work

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  December 15, 2025 2:00 PM

In 1996, Australia enacted some of the world's strictest gun laws. In a mandatory "buy back" and confiscation, hundreds of thousands of firearms were taken from Aussie citizens. Less than two decades later, the Australian government was rounding up the unvaccinated and COVID-infected and putting them into concentration camps.

Gun laws in the Land Down Under are so strict that toy guns require licensing.

It's a Leftist's gun-control dream come true. And it doesn't prevent anything.

On Sunday, two Islamic terrorists opened fire on Jews at Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing at least 15 and wounding 40 others. That terrorist attack followed one in D.C. before Thanksgiving, where two National Guardsmen were shot, one of them — Sarah Beckstrom — was killed. In Rhode Island, an unknown assailant shot and killed two students in a classroom.

The Left's reaction to all of this has not been to blame the scourge of radical Islam or the inflammatory, antisemitic, anti-Trump rhetoric of the Democratic Party. They've once again taken a swing at their most prized political goal: gun control. Even Australia has decided the solution to Islamic monsters killing Jewish children and Holocaust survivors on one of its beaches is to take more guns away from innocent Australians.

One of the Australian terrorists, Naveed Akram from Pakistan, was already on the authorities' radar for radical Islamist ties. How did someone setting off red flags gain access to guns, if not illegally? If he obtained them legally, it shows that the Australian system failed. 

But I digress.

In America, Democrats respond to every mass shooting with the same mentality. Brown University is just the latest example.

Rhode Island has some of the nation's strictest gun laws. The Brown University campus is a gun-free zone. They both have Australia-style gun laws, which — just like the original ones — failed.

Disarmed Americans pay the price thanks to Democratic Party gun-control laws, yes.

Ilhan Omar went one step further and used the shooting in Australia to advocate for an undermining of our Second Amendment.

This isn't tone deaf. It's intentional. A disarmed populace is precisely what the Left wants. 

As Dana Loesch pointed out, defensive gun uses dwarf criminal gun usage, rendering the Left's concerns about gun crime moot.

That statistic is anathema to the gun grabbers, of course.

They want to disarm innocent Americans like me, even though my guns have hurt no one. What my guns do, however, is give me — a single mother with three boys — the peace of mind that if someone were to try to harm us, we'd be protected. Imagine if people on Bondi Beach or in a Brown University classroom had been given the choice to carry a gun. While it's not a guarantee that they would've stopped the killers, it would have given them a fighting chance. 

They don't want us to fight back because leaving us at the mercy of criminals, criminals who are arrested and released countless times, gives Democrats the political power and chaos they thrive on. 

Australia proves gun control doesn't work, and the tighter they try to crack down on guns, the more violence they'll get. Thankfully, in America at least, we see the disastrous outcomes of gun control and refuse to bend the knee to the tyrants who would disarm us.