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.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    Wait, your argument is that these things are so inaccurate that within stabbing distance they still miss their target?

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      127·
      8 months ago

      Yup, injuries have climbed but deaths have dropped.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/21/chicago-glock-switch-lawsuit/

      The 41-page complaint details dangerous and deadly incidents involving modified Glocks on the streets of Chicago in recent years, including police officers with department-issue Glock pistols facing off against criminals with machine-gun power. Bystanders and buildings have been struck by the bullet spray of modified Glocks, which cause a recoil that is difficult for unskilled or inexperienced users to control, the complaint alleges.

      Even Chicago’s own lawsuit details how inaccurate they are.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        It’s specifically citing modified handguns, which are not designed for automatic fire in the first place. An automatic rifle, with a stock and grip, is way more controllable than a fucking handgun doing something it wasn’t designed to do without also adding stocks and grips.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          118·
          8 months ago

          Really that’s your go to?

          The Glocks are %100 designed for automatic fire, a lower is all that changes it when you have a legal automatic firearm.

          On top of that, the last time an automatic rifle was used was during the LA bank robbery. Rifles are rarely used in homicides, and automatic rifles are basically never used.

          You have a really bad understanding of firearms and statistics for them.