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Anthony Albanese must show the same determination as John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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The optics are bad of restricting gun ownership to citizens, but guns ought not be something people are entitled to like they are in America. It's common sense that to use a gun within Australia someone should be a citizen of Australia. A non-citizen can always buy a bunch of guns, sell them, then hop the border to their home country.
In short, there should be the absolute maximum restrictions on guns. Every lever possible should be pulled.
No it's not. It's common sense that a permanent resident should have all the same rights an Australian citizen does, apart from those specifically related to the functioning of our government (e.g. voting).
edit: and heck, I even think they should have the right to vote in Council elections.
It's not common sense that a permanent resident should have all the same rights. It's perfectly valid that if someone isn't considered worthy of being a citizen they should also not be considered worthy of owning lethal weapons.
Treating immigrants as second-class is gross and deeply unaustralian.
It's more like 1.001th class citizens. Gun ownership is not a right, it's not statistically significant in terms of the classing of citizens.