Phil Mickelson pushes back on Australian PM's push for even tougher gun laws after Hanukkah terror attack

Golf fable Phil Mickelson has weighed successful connected the caller shooting astatine Bondi Beach, Australia shooting connected the archetypal time of Ha which killed 2 students and near much injured. 

Mickelson, successful a station connected X, responded to a video of Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling for stricter weapon laws successful the aftermath of the shooting, pushing backmost connected the message. 

"The 2 terrorists didn’t look affected by the strict weapon laws already successful place. In information the shooting went connected for a agelong clip since determination wasn’t anybody other with a weapon to halt them. I’m not a large weapon feline but adjacent I’m not this dumb to judge what this feline is selling," Mickelson wrote. "Prayers to the victims and their families." 

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Phil Mickelson ponders a question astatine a property conference, Monday, June 13, 2022, astatine The Country Club successful Brookline, Mass., up of the U.S. Open play tournament.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Australia has immoderate of the world's strictest weapon power laws, established chiefly by the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA). 

The NFA banned astir semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, which were bought backmost and destroyed successful a government-funded program. Firearms are categorized, with military-style weapons heavy restricted oregon prohibited. Meanwhile, obtaining a weapon successful the state requires information training, written tests, and inheritance checks covering transgression and intelligence wellness history. 

Mickelson aboriginal responded to an X idiosyncratic who shared a stat that Australia experiences zero-to-one wide shootings per year, amid the country's weapon laws. 

"This is simply a large point," Mickelson wrote. "I’m ever unfastened to caller ideas and facts. I’m not ever close and I’m ever unfastened to caller perspectives. I don’t cognize however you instrumentality that successful the US fixed our constitution though." 

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Mickelson besides addressed the caller wide shooting astatine Brown University that claimed the lives of 2 students, re-sharing an FBI wanted poster of the suspect. 

"Let’s find this guy," Mickelson wrote. 

Australian authorities person identified the shooters successful the Bondi Beach shooting arsenic a father, 50, and a son, 24. The begetter was killed astatine the scene, portion the lad was changeable by constabulary and taken to the infirmary successful captious condition. Australian authorities besides said that the shooters had improvised explosives and homemade ISIS flags successful their vehicle.

On Sunday, the brace opened occurrence connected families celebrating Hanukkah astatine Bondi Beach, sidesplitting 15 radical and leaving much than 2 twelve injured. The Australian authorities is investigating the incidental arsenic a panic onslaught targeting the Jewish community.

During the deadly rampage, different bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, an Australian immigrant, wrestled a weapon distant from 1 of the shooters. His lawyer said that Ahmed does not regret intervening, contempt being "riddled with bullets" and successful aggravated pain.

Bystanders were seen connected video confronting a gunman earlier his ISIS-inspired deadly wide shooting astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney, Australia, could begin. 

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Despite their efforts to disarm him, the gunman yet overpowered the 2 bystanders and killed them, according to authorities.

The bystanders were aboriginal identified arsenic Boris and Sofia Gurman, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The outlet reported that the Gurmans were walking by arsenic they saw the assailant exiting a vehicle. Though Boris had the precocious manus for a infinitesimal aft picking up the shooter's rifle, the attacker allegedly picked up different firearm during the confrontation and fatally changeable the couple, making them the archetypal victims of the massacre.

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf contributed to this report. 

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