American political news correspondent Tucker Carlson has expressed his views against the gun laws of Australia, saying Australians have “no freedom.” Carlson described Australia’s Gun Control Laws as “childish.” He made the remark in a live debate on his show Fox & Friends in relation to the infamous Oregon shooting.

A mass shooting took place at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Oct. 1. A 26-year-old student fatally shot nine people and injured nine others in the massacre.

"When there's a driving accident, you don't ban cars, you try to prevent drunk people from driving," Carlson said, comparing the gun legislation with drunk driving.

In contrast, co-host Clayton Morris said that the gun laws in Australia are appropriate measures for effective gun control. However, Carlson criticised the law by saying that people can be imprisoned even for expressing unpopular views in Australia. He suggested that the focus should be shifted from the tool of violence to the wrongdoer.

Carlson expressed his views after a telephonic interview with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Trump described the gun-free zones as disasters and said that everybody present at the time of the Oregon shooting was just a “sitting duck.”

The Oregon shooting reminds many of the Port Arthur massacre that took place in Australia in 1996. Strict gun laws and the National Firearms Programme Implementation Act 1996 were introduced in Australia by former prime minister John Howard after the massacre. Under this law, the private ownership of automatic and semi-automatic weapons and pump-action shotguns was restricted, and uniform firearms licencing was introduced in Australia.

Watch Tucker Carlson express his views on Australian gun laws:

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