Don't Credit God for Unbridled Murder

Don't blame God for this. He- actually, not a "he"- is not to be blamed.

Thank God for the Second Amendment
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2025

After 35 people were gunned down in the Tasmanian city of Port Arthur in 1996, Australia

essentially banned assault rifles and many other semiautomatic rifles, as well as shotguns. They imposed mandatory gun buybacks that took as many as one in three privately held guns out of circulation, and, according to some estimates, melted down as many as one million guns. They also imposed new registration requirements and restrictions on gun purchases.

Thereafter, mass murders by firearm, aside from domestic situations, were almost unknown in Australia until 15 individuals were slaughtered at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14.  In the USA, they are common, whatever the definition of mass shooting. And so it is notable, though regrettably no longer shocking, that

There were almost 47,000 firearms-related deaths in the United States in 2023, the most recent year with available data from Pew Research Center, for an average rate of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 people.

Of those, about 18,000 were gun-related homicides, for a rate of 5.6 gun murders per 100,000 people that year.

During a comparable period (July 2023 through June 2024) Australia saw only 31 gun-related murders, a homicide rate of 0.09 gun murders per 100,000 people, according to data from the Australian Institute of Criminology.

And so, unburdened by a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of every resident to own a musket he can take upon joining a no-existent militia, the government of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is encouraging stricter gun control measures.  The nation's officials evidently are determined to prevent Australia from creating the killing fields we have in the USA.  A merciful God would approve.

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