The government is prepared to take whatever action is required. That includes the need for stricter gun laws, said Anthony Albanese during a press conference on Monday.
The Prime Minister is set to put the issue on the agenda at a meeting of the national government on Monday afternoon. According to the Prime Minister, stricter gun laws include limits on the number of guns a person can license and reviewing gun licenses over time.
“People can be radicalized”
People can become radicalized over time. Gun licenses should not be valid forever, Albanese says.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said earlier in the day that the terrorist attack must never be repeated.
"It requires legislation. That means putting a bill before Parliament so that - to be blunt - it becomes more difficult to get hold of these terrible weapons that have no practical use in our society," Chris Minns said during a press conference on Monday.
Stricter gun laws
The terrorist attack on the tourist beach of Bondi Beach in Sydney was carried out by two men, a father and son, aged 50 and 24 respectively. The 50-year-old had held a firearms licence for ten years and owned six guns. These are the weapons believed to have been used in the attack.
Australia introduced stricter gun laws after a mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996, when 35 people were shot dead. The new strict law has led to a sharp drop in the number of murders and suicides with firearms in the country – between 1996 and 2016, the number of murders with firearms fell by 72 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In 2017, a gun amnesty was carried out in the country in which 50,000 firearms were collected.
