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.
Lol ok sure. I own an automatic, it was stupid expensive and is wildly inaccurate. It’s a collection piece and barely gets used because of how silly it is
Tell me again how little I know…you being antigun telling me that I don’t know about firearms is hilarious.
I’m a combat veteran. I’ve used semi/burst/and full weapons in combat.
You’re full of shit.
Sure ya did desk jockey.
Even just using that phrase tells me you were not a grunt.
Never said I was. We really need a /r/justbootthings here on Lemmy. Your military experience doesn’t magically make you an expert. Usually it’s the opposite.
Lmao. Are you really going to argue that combat experience makes you inexperienced in handling weapons?
Oh boy.
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Lmao. I’m not telling you stories. I’m not claiming any greatness. And everyone in the US military has to qualify repeatedly throughout their career. Including machine gunners. Whose qual has a section where they have to put holes in 17 targets on a paper at about 10 meters. And that’s just to make sure the gunner and gun are okay before having them shoot pop up targets 400 to 800 meters away.
Which means a qualified gunner can rock your shit at a range from which you probably won’t even see them.
Now because I can already hear you saying, “but we’re talking about rifles!”, the gunner achieves that in the same way a rifleman with a full auto weapon would, by bursting. But there is no full auto rifle qual because they all have selector switches and we’re not idiots. There is however burst and full auto familiarization, where you learn the weapon is very controllable as long as you don’t mag dump like you’re a fucking Call of Duty player.
And oh look it learned about boots and crayons. But I’m not a Marine. I am done here though. You’re an idiot, everyone obviously sees that and anyone who didn’t can now see why.
I love how you prove what I’m saying is true lol
Your inability to use an automatic weapon accurately has no bearing on how many casualties a competent person could inflict with one you muppet.
Yes because we all know that mentally ill people who intend on killing people usually get a gun and train with it. Almost all shootings happen directly after getting the firearm.
The nutter who shot up that LA concert spent a lot of time training, and spent years buying his firearms and ammo.
Australian’s have zero interest in going down the route that America has with school shootings. The stabbing is a tragedy that could have been much worse.
And unlike in the US UNARMED civilians were able to intervene and slow the attacker down.
Fuck you brainwashed cretins who would rather have children dying than give up your precious penis extensions.
Cool, we like our guns, stay over there or w/e you are and let your nanny state tell you that you cannot own paintball or airsoft or gelsoft guns cause they’re dangerous lol
You’re not sane and I hope you don’t have access to firearms.
O no another euro telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about lol
At what point of literally everybody disagreeing with you would you assess your stance? Just curious.
Check their recent replies, homeboy is actually trying to pretend he’s been in agreement with the dissenters this whole time.