Targeted Attack by Islamist Jihadists on Jews Calls for Tightened Gun Laws?!!!

"This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah which should be a day of joy. A celebration of faith."

"An act of evil antisemitism, terrorism, that has struck the heart of our nation. An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian. And every Australian tonight will be -- like me -- devastated on this attack on our way of life."

"There is no place for this hate, violence and terrorism in our nation. Let me be clear. We will eradicate it."

"We stand with you. We embrace you. And we reaffirm tonight that  you have every right to be proud of who you are and what you believe."

"You have the right to worship and study and live and work in peace and safety. And  you enrich us as a nation." 

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 

Police tape off a road after the shooting in Bondi. (ABC News: Victoria Pengilley)

 

Another demographic in Australia also has the right to what they believe. They have the right to worship and live and work in Australia all the while actively pursuing a dedication to their faith demanding jihad, and to do so in a manner that threatens that of Australia's Jews to deny them peace and safety. Their presence is anything but enriching to the nation. Yet their numbers influence the Australian government to permit their constant denial of security to the Jews that call Australia their home. The Albanese government's refusal to curtail their criminal harassment and threatening of Jews in Australia has effectively given Palestinians and other Muslims the green light to continue their campaign of hate.

 

On Sunday just past, when an estimated thousand Australian Jews gathered in a celebration of the Festival of Lights commemorating Hanukkah -- the Biblical-era event of the 2nd Century Maccabean rebellion against the Seleucid Empire, the Jerusalem Temple had been desecrated and Judah Maccabee set about to rededicate the Temple, but could find for his ceremony only enough sacred oil to last a day. Miraculously, the oil burned for a week, renewing the Jewish faith and the Temple, a symbol of Jewish fortitude and resilience that is celebrated every year by the current generations of Jews globally -- a tragedy marred the proceedings.

 

A father and son, armed by their Islamofascist infamy dedicated to the destruction of Jews and of the Jewish state, along with deadly arms stationed themselves on a bridge overlooking the beach to randomly open fire on the crowds below resulting in a frantic panic of people trying to escape the carnage that began taking place around them, as children and adults alike succumbed to the lethal barrage of bullets. Before the carnage ensued, an older Jewish couple involved themselves when Boris Gurman, 69, grappled with one of the gunmen in an attempt to disarm him, an attempt that failed when he and his wife, 61-year-old Sofia were shot and killed, the first of the victims. 

 

Screenshot from a dashcam clip shows a man falling down after attempting to disarm one of the gunmen behind the Bondi Beach mass shooting.  Reuters

 

Astonishingly, in that huge crowd of people celebrating the Jewish holiday, there were but two Australian police on duty and they were likely unarmed. Between them the two killers had three long guns. At 6:47 p.m., from a distance of 50 metres, they began their assault. Parents threw themselves over their children as human shields; one elderly man attempting to shield his wife was shot in the head and killed. Some people ran into the sea, while others frantically exited the water. "It just didn't stop. We were so targeted in that little space. We were like sitting ducks", one woman said as the gunmen reloaded and fired, again and again.

 

When police finally arrived from a nearby station, they were armed with pistols as opposed to the long guns of the attackers. When the older shooter left the footbridge to the grass for a closer approach to the victims, he fired at point-blank range into the crowd. Before long he was tackled from behind by 43-year-old father of two, Maronite Christian bystander Ahmed al Ahmed tackling from between parked cars who succeeded in wresting the gun away, briefly turning the weapon on the shooter who returned to the bridge for the third weapon to resume shooting. The terrorists responsible for the massacre were father and son, Sajid and Naveed Sajid Akram, Australian citizens of Pakistani descent. 

 

Still from video of Ahmed Al Ahmed tackling one of the gunmen  

 

"Rescuers frantically pumped the chests of unmoving bodies on the grass, near a picnic table, an abandoned stroller and the petting zoo", it was reported, after the older of the two men had been shot dead and his son, wounded, taken to hospital in custody. There was another heroic act, one of so many, in this tragic story of inhuman depravity and human courage. That of 14-year old Chaya who had acted impulsively on seeing two younger children on their own while bullets rained down among them, to shield them with her own body. She was shot in the leg and when the shooters were incapacitated, she was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

 

Fourteen-year-old Chaya is pictured with members of United Hatzalah's Psychotrauma & Crisis unit while in the hospital receiving treatment for injuries sustained during Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach, Australia.  (photo credit: UNITED HATZALAH‏) 

"[The weapons appear to be] the kinds of things people can buy legally in Australia. My first impression is, you're looking at an over/under shotgun, which is a double barrel shotgun, with the barrels configured vertically instead of  horizontally. If that is correct, a double barrel shotgun holds two rounds, and you have to reload it every time you fire two rounds." 

"As far as them being able to get off as many shots as they did, even if you're using a double-action rifle or a breakaction shotgun, you would still be able to get off a lot of shots. Because there is nobody shooting back at you".

Canadian firearms writer Andrew Somerset 

Australia, which has some of the strictest gun-owning laws in the world, is now considering tightening them even more. As though it was the guns that were responsible for two men shouting 'Allahu Akbar! and warning non-Jews to move away before firing indiscriminately and even aiming directly at a 10-year-old child they murdered, described by her horrified mother as a deliberate aim at her daughter. The government carefully refraining from describing the attack as one committed by Muslims against Jews, although it has been identified as a terrorist atrocity and the two attackers held an association with Islamic State.  

"Nothing in the video suggests to me these people had any kind of para-military training. There is more than one path to prevent these incidents and simply saying 'we're not going to let people have guns' is not going to sole the problem."

"You have to try to control these things by saying people can't be antisemitic. You can start to go after the networks of people who publicly express support for groups like Hamas."

Andrew Somerset, Canadian firearms writer  

A woman leaves the scene with her child, who is covered in an emergency blanket, after a shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (credit: George Chan/Getty Images)

 

Illegal Importation of Firearms into Canada From the United States

"Our problem in Toronto are handguns from the United States." 

"The issues around investing in what you described is certainly not going to deal with the crime problem we're facing in Toronto, as it relates to the use of criminal handguns."

Toronto Police Deputy Chief Myron Demkiw

"We see handguns in Saskatchewan, but predominantly most of the crime is committed by long-barrelled rifles."

"In Alberta and Manitoba it's very similar, a lot of those guns are coming from break-and-enters. The work we need to do there comes down to education of people on safe storage, and not to have those guns stolen from a farmhouse and then converted and used in crimes."

"I'm not going to say there isn't a problem from time to time with legal gun owners [alluding to the practise known as 'straw purchasing' where licensed gun owners sell their legally bought firearms on the black market]."

"But generally speaking, most of the laws we create are not going to be followed by the people who are committing the crimes with the guns."

"We have a ban on murder in Canada, and yet sadly we still have homicides happening all the time."

Regina Police Chief Evan Bray

"Law enforcement officials are the actual experts when it comes to crime and street violence."

"When none of them support the idea of banning legal guns from licensed owners in an effort to reduce street crime, I think it's an obligation of the government to listen to that."

Tracey Wilson, vice-president, public affairs, Canadian Coalition for Firearms rights

A Glock handgun seized by Toronto police earlier this year. The small cube on the rear of the firearm is an illegal ‘sear switch’ that allows the semi-automatic handgun to fire full-auto. Photo by Toronto police/Twitter /@TPSGunsSeized

 

In testimony before the Commons [House of Commons] Public Safety Committee, police chiefs of Canadian cities are critical of gun legislation that appears to target legal gun owners for the avowed purpose of addressing the phenomenon of growing gun crimes in Canadian cities. Mostly weapons in the hands of criminal gangs, where shoot-outs endanger innocent civilians, including children. 

The Toronto deputy-chief responded to a question relating to the Trudeau Liberals' close to billion-dollar federal buyback program that allows legal gun owners to turn in their 'military-style assault rifles' banned by Ottawa a year ago. Deputy Chief Demkiw informed the committee that aside from addressing key causes of criminality in the community, the effort and funds involved should be spent on stemming the flow of illegal guns into Canada.

The government stands accused of gun control measures that tend to punish law-abiding Canadian firearm owners in a wide-ranging plan to diminish the number of firearms owned by the public, in the process seeming to bypass the real source of crime guns which are by and large firearms readily smuggled across the border into Canada from the United States.

 

Toronto Police Service Guns Seized #offthestreets

 

A cost estimate of the buy-back program published by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated costs at $756 million. Program spending increased by another $8.8 million according to a recent Department of Public Safety quarterly report. Local handgun bans being explored by many cities including Toronto following the federal government's stated intention of working with provincial and territorial leaders to allow such bans, may soon come into effect.

Toronto has seen a steady and steep rise in shootings, including the number of shots fired where Toronto police recovered 2,405 shell casings in 2021; a 50 percent increase from the year before. Higher capacity and  higher-power firearms are making more frequent appearances, as can be verified by the Toronto Police 'guns seized' Twitter account. Three handguns seized by investigators in February featured a Taurus G2C and two Glocks.

Nine firearm banned models intended on criminalizing variants of the popularAR-15 platform came into effect on May1, 2020. Seized guns cannot be legally purchased and owned in Canada; the Glocks seized had been given a selector switch on the rear cover plate to convert the semi-automatic pistols into full-auto, mini submachine guns.

Most of the guns Toronto police seized in 2022 were either prohibited or had overcapacity magazines; illegally modified to hold more than the legally permitted ten rounds, or purchased in the United States and smuggled into Canada. The scope of gun crime varies, all the more so when comparing the Prairie provinces to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia or the Greater Toronto Area. 

Inexorably the connection between gun crime and the criminal drug trade links organized criminality. An entirely separate issue is that of legal gun owners. As for enacting gun bans, it was pointed out,  the citizenry have to buy into it. Canada's gun lobby has long since called for measures to bypass punishing law-abiding firearms owners. Not only those who collect and shoot guns as a sporting hobby, but more to the point, the fact that most farmers own a rifle.

A restricted gun licence holder holds a AR-15 at his home in Langley, B.C.  Photo by The Canadian Press