I’m curious if enough of them are conservative enough to reverse the ban on firearms.
It’s a totally different culture, totally different people, we never had a gun culture to begin with, and what you never had, you don’t miss. Please do not equate your weapons history to Australia. It just isn’t the same. If I want to buy or own a gun, with certain sensible restrictions, I can...if I felt I had a need or a wish to.
But there’s no NEED.
NO NEED, GET IT?
Firearms Deaths, Australia, 1980 to 1995
I guess Fred answered that question for you.
First of all, there isn’t a ban on firearms - there are restrictions and regulations, but law abiding citizens can own firearms. I do.
But, yes, it’s likely that some of the restrictions and regulations will be relaxed. That is currently happening in my own state of Victoria which has had a conservative government for about a year and a half at this point.
There won’t be dramatic changes, simply because most Australians don’t want dramatic changes. Our history is different from that of the United States and that affects our culture. Most Australians - including conservative Australians - are comfortable with the idea of a degree of regulation of firearms. We do not have an equivalent of your second amendment which makes it a constitutional issue. We’ve never had to fight a revolution to remove a government (beyond a couple of single incidents in the nineteenth century where people stood up and the government almost immediately agreed to fix the problems that were limiting people’s rights, such as the Eureka Stockade - one small scale gun battle and a colony was granted self government - partly because lessons had been learned by Britain from its experiences in America - than when people started demanding rights, it was better to give them to them because you could not stop them in the end), we’ve never had a civil war. Importantly, Australian criminals are far less likely to carry guns than those in America and it’s considered desirable to try and keep it that way by not starting an ‘arms race’. If people want guns and have a reason they need them, they can get them - but it is deliberately not easy - in the same way that getting a drivers licence is not that easy.