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Four dead and more injured in Sydney shopping centre stabbing
Irish times ^

Posted on 04/13/2024 1:23:13 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Four people have died and more have been injured in a knife attack in a shopping centre near Australia’s Bondi beach.

Australian media said four people had died and more had been injured by a man stabbing people at the Westfield Bondi Junction centre in Sydney.

ABC News reported that seven people had been taken to hospital, including a nine-month-old baby.


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KEYWORDS: amyscott; attack; australia; bondijunction; cauchi; joelcauchi; massstabbing; stabbing; stabbingspree; sydney; violence; westfieldbondijunct
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To: riverrunner

Just imagine how much deader they would have been had they been shot..


21 posted on 04/13/2024 4:13:24 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: riverrunner

Thinking the same thing. Truth is restricting guns might limit the rare mass casualty events like the Las Vegas psycho. Yet it won’t affect the overall crime rates a whole lot. Bad Gus will still get illegal weapons, use knives, machetes, even homemade bombs.

% of murders caused by semi-auto long rifles is actually quite tiny.


22 posted on 04/13/2024 4:27:20 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: janetjanet998

$5 says it’s a lowlife, murderous, subhuman, blood-gargling, troglodyte-from-hell muzzie(SPIT!) rampager.


23 posted on 04/13/2024 4:28:38 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: xp38

He won’t get his 72 RAISINS.

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/163694/raisins-not-virgins-quran-scholars-say


24 posted on 04/13/2024 4:30:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: LukeL

I heard that the police are saying it’s not a terror attack.

Right........


25 posted on 04/13/2024 4:41:00 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: riverrunner

Time for common sense knife control.

Gotta keep knives out of the hands of terrorists by banning them for everyone. Right?


26 posted on 04/13/2024 4:43:12 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

You say that as a joke yet the Brits are doing exactly that.

Next will be stick and stone control.


27 posted on 04/13/2024 4:51:59 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Sarcasm.....

and yes, I have heard about the shenanigans in Britain about the knife control.

Totally ludicrous.


28 posted on 04/13/2024 5:05:36 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: janetjanet998

Well at least they weren’t “shot to death”.


29 posted on 04/13/2024 5:18:16 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: janetjanet998

Muzzie “knifeman”?


30 posted on 04/13/2024 5:19:13 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Carriage Hill

Killed by a woman? No raisins, virgins or soup for you! Next!

31 posted on 04/13/2024 5:24:46 AM PDT by xp38
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To: naturalman1975
Law abiding citizens have little difficulty in owning firearms if they want to. But not all that many do compared to the US.

The purpose of owning a firearm for a mass amount of people in the USA is to have it available for protection. Owning a firearm is not the goal. The restrictions that are placed upon people is how tyrannical governments operate. The people that purchase a firearm should not be burdened with government officials coming into their homes to “inspect” their “registered” firearms. The mass media has an agenda. Every mass shooter that is taken out by a good guy with a gun is hidden from the world. You never see a headline story about when a bad guy with a firearm is taken out by a citizen that is lawfully carrying a weapon. My understanding of Australia is that yes you can own firearms BUT the ownership comes with fees, inspections and restrictions while the gun is owned. In a nutshell if you are “allowed” to own a gun but you have regulations on that ownership you may as well not own the gun and because you are restricted from using it in a meaningful way.

What comes to mind a few years back when I was staying in Sydney. A knife wielding guy murdered a woman and was out on the street after he killed the woman. He had to be subdued by a couple Brits who I think used a chair! At the time no one had a gun to lay the murderer down.

Prayers for the victims and their families in this senseless murder of these people.

32 posted on 04/13/2024 5:29:13 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: janetjanet998

We should ban all sharp and pointy objects. If it saves just one life!


33 posted on 04/13/2024 6:10:26 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: janetjanet998

How come that shopping center wasn’t a knife-free zone?


34 posted on 04/13/2024 6:40:15 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: FLT-bird

Fist control.

Amputate your hands, please.


35 posted on 04/13/2024 6:47:46 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: janetjanet998

SIGH

AGAIN, commentator calls the insane scumbag a “gentleman”!

What the hell is wrong with people always doing this? Apparently it’s not just an American thing. Reporters, politicians, common Joe Schmoe witness…all using “gentleman” for a scumbag, and it’s the only time I hear the word!

Sorry, off my soapbox. Along with the lower-the-flag peeve I have!


36 posted on 04/13/2024 6:51:43 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: janetjanet998

Perhaps the Aussies should adopt the British anti-stab knife and ban pointy things.
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/knife.jpg

From another post on FR...”Sydney knifeman aka Muhammad Ackar”


37 posted on 04/13/2024 6:57:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

What about fresh fruit?


38 posted on 04/13/2024 6:57:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

We haven’t done bananas have we?


39 posted on 04/13/2024 7:03:12 AM PDT by xp38
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To: janetjanet998

Time for Australia to ban knives like they did guns.


40 posted on 04/13/2024 7:18:45 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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