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.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        126·
        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.

      • PhatInfernoEnglish
        3·
        8 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

      • PhatInfernoEnglish
        1·
        8 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        127·
        8 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          8 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            120·
            8 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.