The response is never to confront the ideology driving the violence, but to punish the public: strip citizens of their right to self-defense, muzzle free speech, and criminalize criticism of Islam. In Australia, after the Bondi Beach terror attack during a Hanukkah celebration, the government’s answer was a gun buyback and looming hate-speech laws—measures that target law-abiding citizens while leaving the root cause untouched. Under Islam, criticizing Islam is a crime. Now Western governments are importing that same taboo, trading liberty for appeasement, and calling it “strength.”