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.

  • Aermis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    8 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      127·
      8 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@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        8 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!

      • Aermis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 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