"It should never have reached this stage."

An Aussie politico laments that they went 'too far' in stripping people of the ability to defend themselves in banning not only guns but every available tool of active and passive self defense. 

Well, to tell the truth, they did it to themselves.  They took a rare but tragic occurrence and gave the Statists everything they wanted, a passive, defenseless populace. He even says it himself "Only an authoritarian society would treat its people like helpless victims, with the government masquerading as some kind of guardian angel."

Maybe more Australians should have thought ahead before they started overwhelmingly supporting these measures and not waited until a bunch of nutballs started trying to cut their heads off before deciding to try and get their rights back.

They've got a long and arduous fight ahead of them.  Good Luck. Let this be a lesson to not only Australia but everyone who has their own nanny-state wannabe's demanding gun control.