ABC TV in Australia reported that police evacuated shoppers at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction.

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured.

New South Wales police said they believed a 40-year-old man was responsible for the Saturday afternoon attack at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, in the city’s eastern suburbs and not far from the world-famous Bondi Beach. They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren’t treating the attack as terrorism-related.

The man was shot dead by a police inspector after he turned and raised a knife, New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Cooke told reporters.

  • papertowelsEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    Inaccurate, but it doesn’t say anything about less lethal.

    Bystanders and buildings have been struck by the bullet spray of modified Glocks

    You are once again assuming that the individual is aiming at particular targets, but instead they’re in a shopping center with strangers.

    Finally, even with your provided one year of data, it’s correlation vs causation.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Uhh why would it magically be less than lethal? It’s still a firearm…and no the data is showing this throughout all the innercities where gang violence is high.

      • papertowelsEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        To put it succinctly, just because you can’t hit your intended target with an automatic firearm doesn’t mean the danger goes away - oftentimes bystanders get hurt, which is mentioned in the quote you brought up.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I didn’t say it did anywhere. I have stated multiple times that the odds of being killed by someone spraying into a crowd is lower than someone actively aiming at you.

          • papertowelsEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            There’s a nuanced difference between odds of being someone being killed by x versus y, and the number of deaths resulting from x vs y.

            My hunch is that spraying into a crowd with an automatic results in more deaths at a faster rate than someone actively aiming, but quite frankly my personal belief is that having a knife severely limited the number of deaths when compared to any firearm.