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.

  • papertowels@lemmy.oneEnglish
    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
      18·
      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.

      • papertowels@lemmy.oneEnglish
        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.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 months ago

          https://lemmy.world/post/14304481

          Last night, gang hit, 1 dead 8 injured, drive by. Glock with giggle switch %100 was used. I’m not saying automatics aren’t deadly, I’m saying most cannot properly use them to the point of making them deadly.