In summary: Where someone lives and how many guns they own is a non-issue as police have fully approved this; The "fit and proper person" checks already give police powers to intervene; We have low gun violence considering 1 in 14 adults have guns; Our current laws work fine.

10. When things go wrong, like they did in Bondi, we need to look at how it happened. Why did intelligence agencies not report the connections? Why did police not act to disqualify and remove firearms? Was there really a genuine need and the owner a "fit and proper person"?

9. And it's important to understand that a firearm licence is not a license for life, or in perpetuity, like some are claiming. Firearm licenses are licensed, typically renewed annually like a drivers licence, but where police get to perform additional checks before renewing.

8. As a law-abiding firearm owner, you need to be "the best of us". You need to rightly go through invasive background checks; accept your views, beliefs, and opinions can get your license revoked or renewal denied; and accept police can perform warrantless inspections any time.

7. The politicians & media are claiming we have more guns now than at the time of Port Arthur. And? Our population has grown by millions; and the ban back then removed semi-automatic rifles, so many logically replaced those rifles with new ones. Was there an expectation of less?

6. Australia has a population of 27 million, with around 14 million being adults that can apply for a firearm license. Around 1 million Aussies have done this, meaning 1 in 14 adults has a firearm here. And yet, we rarely have issues with gun violence. This proves our laws work.

5. Not all guns do the same job. Someone preparing food doesn't just own one knife, and likewise different types of firearms, in different calibres, are for different things. Whether a farmer, hunter, pest controller, or sports shooter, having multiple guns is very normal.

4. There are occasions where criminals do illegal things with guns, maybe even registered guns, but criminals also do things with cars, knives, and many other things. This is what the police are for. Don't blame everyone doing the right things for the actions of criminal.

3. There are no (legal) guns on the streets. Australia does not have any carry or concealed carry rights for regular people. If a gun is actually outside the authorised gun safe, and not on (or travelling to or from) an authorised range or property, then that is an offence.

2. Due to the application and approval process, and acceptance of the genuine need, there should never be a shock as to how many firearms someone has, and where they live has zero bearing. They were approved by the state's "top cop" (Police Commissioner).

I need to make a few things abundantly clear. 1. Every single (legal) firearm in Australia has been applied for. In each instance the applicant is required to state a justify having that firearm (a "genuine need"), and the state police Commissioner has to accept and approve that.

Every single politician making media statements and social media posts, talking about Australia having "too many guns", wanting to get "guns off the streets" and supporting rushed new gun laws... is an ignorant fuckwit that needs to be voted out. Guns aren't the real issue here.

The ABC asks "Why social media was flooded with lies after the Bondi shooting". Is the answer that all the lying, scheming, shitheads in Australian politics and the mainstream media logged on to start spinning the narrative to avoid addressing the real issues and just blame guns?

We already have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. We have a very long, expensive, and rightly intrusive firearm application and acquisition process already in place. These incidents should not be happening with existing laws, and new regulations won't help.

The process is such that firearms owners are already some of the most vetted and presumed safe individuals in the country. So, it is important to first look at how existing policing, policies, and intelligence may have failed within the scope of existing laws and regulations.

Guns don't load themselves and shoot things. The people behind the guns matter, and that is why we already have strict background checks, restrictions for gun types & calibre usage, and a requirement to state the "need", which are all assessed by the state police commissioners...

People have already had firearms licences denied because a family member was loosely associated with an undesirable group. How did a man arrive here via student visa, stay here, get a gun license, and keep that licence while the son was on an ASIO watchlist for extremist views?

Furthermore, police already have powers written into existing laws to suspend firearm licenses, and confiscate firearms, to reassess if the holder is a *fit and proper person". This also already applies to new applications and renewals. This is clearly a policing failure.

We don't have a "guns on the street" problem, aside from illegal firearms held by criminals that will ignore any new gun (again). Just like drugs & tobacco, even if we completely ban them, they will still be available: Australia has about 1 million illegal guns held by criminals.

Put simply, this was a terrorist incident. They also had IEDs. They would have also found illegal firearms if they didn't have the ones they did. This was a failure of Australia intelligence services, NSW police, and government policies. Tougher gun control isn't the "fix" here.