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.

  • @SupraMario
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    -506 months ago

    Where did I say anything like that? I was pointing out that automatic weapons have shit accuracy. It’s not my fault you can’t understand that.

    • @[email protected]
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      306 months ago

      And you need laser perfect accuracy to fire into a crowd of people? Are you fucking mentally disabled?

      • @SupraMario
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        -396 months ago

        To kill yes, wound no. Bullets don’t magically aim themselves at vital organs.

        • @Aermis
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          176 months ago

          If you’re hit in the torso, there’s a strong chance that you’re dead if you don’t get immediate care. Lungs, heart, liver, kidney, stomach, everything is in there. You don’t need to magically aim. And this isn’t a conversation of accuracy in automatic vs semi automatic. Thats a stupid strawman argument of bringing up something completely irrelevant. You’re being pedantic. There would be dozens more dead if the guy had a gun instead of a knife. And you’re a fool if you believe otherwise.

          • @SupraMario
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            -266 months ago

            No it’s not. Firearm injuries far outnumbered the homicides

            https://health.ucdavis.edu/what-you-can-do/facts.html

            In 2019, 14,861 people in the U.S. died from firearm homicide, accounting for 37% of total deaths from firearms. Firearms were the means for about 75% of homicides in 2018. The other 3% of firearm deaths are unintentional, undetermined, from legal intervention, or from public mass shootings (0.2% of total firearm deaths). There are approximately 115,000 non-fatal firearm injuries in the U.S. each year.

            15k~ homicides vs 115k non-fatal injuries.

            Killing someone with a firearm is not as easy as the media likes to portrait it.

            • Ixoid
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              136 months ago

              Oh, the guns aren’t lethal. IT’S OK EVERYONE, THE GUNS ARE SAFE! SOME FUCKWIT TOLD ME SO ONLINE, WE WERE ALL WRONG!

              • @SupraMario
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                -216 months ago

                I guess this fuckwit hit a nerve…

            • @Aermis
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              36 months ago

              Yeah buddy knife injuries far out weigh knife deaths too. It’s the severity of the deaths and injuries, and if you have intent to kill you’re going to kill more with a gun

          • @[email protected]
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            46 months ago

            Ikr imagine being this dense,

            This dude has got to be trolling, it always amazes me how some people lack the ability to think

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            Ikr imagine being this dense,

            This dude has got to be trolling, it always amazes me how some people lack the ability to think

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          116 months ago

          What organ isn’t vital? I am pretty sure if you shot any part of my body I could quite easily die from it. If not directly from blood loss or infection. It isn’t like evolution gave us random spots that are safe to be hit.

          • @SupraMario
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            -286 months ago

            First, infection isn’t even needed in this scenario, you don’t die from infection in 30 seconds.

            Secondly, the majority of people who are shot with a firearm via violence do not die. It’s not even close. In numbers.

            Third, firearms unless they hit you in the heart or head is not going to immediately kill you. This is why in war most of the casualties are injured and not death.

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              106 months ago

              Answer the fucking questions you are being asked not the ones you want people to have had asked you

              Name a non-vital organ. Some part of the human body that if shot can not result in the death of a person.

              • @SupraMario
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                -206 months ago

                Liver, kidney, lung, stomach, arms, legs, want me to go on? Or do you need a human biology lesson to understand that you can lose a lot of shit before you die.

                • @Icalasari
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                  106 months ago

                  Last I checked, you kinda need lungs to breathe. And also last I checked, arms and legs aren’t organs

                  • @SupraMario
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                    -66 months ago

                    You can live with one lung…this isn’t rocket science.