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.
Just imagine how much deader they would have been had they been shot..
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.
$5 says it’s a lowlife, murderous, subhuman, blood-gargling, troglodyte-from-hell muzzie(SPIT!) rampager.
He won’t get his 72 RAISINS.
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/163694/raisins-not-virgins-quran-scholars-say
I heard that the police are saying it’s not a terror attack.
Right........
Time for common sense knife control.
Gotta keep knives out of the hands of terrorists by banning them for everyone. Right?
You say that as a joke yet the Brits are doing exactly that.
Next will be stick and stone control.
Sarcasm.....
and yes, I have heard about the shenanigans in Britain about the knife control.
Totally ludicrous.
Well at least they weren’t “shot to death”.
Muzzie “knifeman”?
Killed by a woman? No raisins, virgins or soup for you! Next!
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.
We should ban all sharp and pointy objects. If it saves just one life!
How come that shopping center wasn’t a knife-free zone?
Fist control.
Amputate your hands, please.
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!
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”
What about fresh fruit?
We haven’t done bananas have we?
Time for Australia to ban knives like they did guns.
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