"Members of Melbourne's Jewish community gathered on Thursday to mourn Reuven Morrison. The 62-year-old met his wife, Leah, at Bondi after immigrating from the Soviet Union in the 1970s. He died there on Sunday night, having thrown a brick at one of the gunmen, trying to slow the deadly attack on joyful Hanukah celebrations. His unjust death betrays the reason Morrison chose to move across the world."
"Restoring their feeling of safety will take an extraordinary effort and a long time. As well as a full-throated push to stamp out antisemitism and religious intolerance, the work should start with a national approach to managing guns. Serious and coordinated efforts to limit the number of weapons in the community, and properly assess the types of people seeking to access and keep them, must be part of the state and federal response."
Funerals for the Bondi shooting victims have deepened national grief, including the mourning of Reuven Morrison, who died after confronting a gunman to protect Hanukkah celebrants. Jewish communities face heightened fear after more than two years of anxiety. Restoring safety requires a comprehensive response: stamping out antisemitism and religious intolerance, and implementing a national approach to gun management. Proposed reforms include limiting weapon types and numbers, reviewing licensing rules, improving criminal intelligence sharing, restricting gun licences to citizens, and tightening import controls including on 3D-printed weapon components. Political resistance from some jurisdictions and parties could hinder prompt implementation.
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