Horrible news from Australia

[Mulligan]

Police investigating Bondi gunmen's trip to Philippines month before shooting

Fifteen people - including a 10-year-old girl and a British-born rabbi - were killed when two gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event.

www.bbc.com

Prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.

I also wonder if the armed citizen could have changed the outcome?

I see so many good people doing good things, it is sometimes hard for me to fathom that small percentage of ugliness.
Dang the evil in this world!
CW

 

[CorkyM]

Tragic

 

[MikeT124]

Sorry to hear that. I've always wanted to visit Australia, but probably never will because of their shitty gun laws.

Mike

 

[Doug Casner]

I kept waiting for that hero to pull the trigger on that worthless coward but he must have been a christian man or it was empty. Doug

 

[Rwfish]

I kept waiting for that hero to pull the trigger on that worthless coward but he must have been a christian man or it was empty. Doug

Not sure I would have killed the guy either but if there was ammo left his legs wouldn’t be working well enough to just walk away….

 

[Fuj]

I kept waiting for that hero to pull the trigger on that worthless coward but he must have been a christian man or it was empty. Doug

I watched that news video showing the guy coming out of the crowed and
bear hugged him huge. After taking the shotgun from him, he pointed it at
him but let him walk away. Empty or not, Christian or not, he had a club. Next
shot was an older gent throwing something at him. Don't hear about things
like this at all down under

 

[tmwinds]

Placing the weapon down after the assailant backed off was probably a wise move. I wouldn’t think it would look good to be holding a weapon if the police arrive.

 

[steve210]

He was probably scared to shoot him, he would have went to jail, same as here in blue states or cities.

 

[TAJ45]

Leg shot(s) is abt the worst thing you could do when perp is unarmed. That would open the door to an avalanche of woe by the poor, semi innocent's lawyers n bleeding heart jury.

To take this to the extreme of taking him off the board, the time to do it would be in the middle of the takedown...." l expected him to have a pistol as well...." heat of the moment of unknowns, therefore not an execution. Otherwise, I would have rendered him very unconscious w no break in the melee.

Itsa pity the general public can only partially defend themselves.

 

[bobeager]

The hero is a fruit shop owner and he is of Arabic heritage. Reported that he had no experience with firearms. He was subsequently wounded and is in hospital. The terrorist shooters were a father and son. Looks like father killed by police, son critical. Father was a licenced gun owner for past 10 years. He had 6 guns that the police say were recovered. It has been reported that there were 2 improvised explosive devices their car.

If you think Australian gun laws are tough, it now going escalate

 

[Kracken McGraw]

The hero is a fruit shop owner and he is of Arabic heritage. Reported that he had no experience with firearms. He was subsequently wounded and is in hospital. The terrorist shooters were a father and son. Looks like father killed by police, son critical. Father was a licenced gun owner for past 10 years. He had 6 guns that the police say were recovered. It has been reported that there were 2 improvised explosive devices their car.

If you think Australian gun laws are tough, it now going escalate

Where were the terrorists from?

 

[Rubberduckie]

I haven't been carrying for a long time. I always have an arm near by whether it's at my work desk/ truck/ home. I'm gonna start keeping something on me at all times. I couldn't imagine a situation like this where I couldn't fight back.

 

[MFG_BOP]

I feel for the victims. Australia has a leftist government in power, and it’s very likely that even more gun restrictions will be imposed soon

 

[joshb]

I feel for the victims. Australia has a leftist government in power, and it’s very likely that even more gun restrictions will be imposed soon

Sadly, all they could do was run.

 

[Cecil S.]

Awful!

 

[10XSHOOTER]

Clay, a Muslim by stander tackled one of the shooters and took his firearm from him, but did not use it on the shooter.
There's a video out now showing this!

 

[D Coots]

Never give an inch of our 2nd Amendment.

 

[FTR_Mojo]

Where were the terrorists from?

Pakistan

 

[Willow]

It was a dark day for sure and one that will affect Australia for years to come. That was our worst massacre since Port Arthur in 1996, gun laws changed then, and they will change now, with limits on the number of firearms one person can own likely to be limited. I won't use this forum to go on about the likely change of laws as nothing has been proposed yet.

I have travelled to the US multiple times over the past couple of years and I understand that there's a big difference between Australia's gun laws and your own. Many Australians were watching footage of the Brown University incident on TV prior to the Bondi incident kicking off and we simply don't experience this level of gun violence in the same way as other countries around the world.

This incident did touch people close to me however, and it's a day we won't forget.

 

[Wottchitt]

Police investigating Bondi gunmen's trip to Philippines month before shooting

Fifteen people - including a 10-year-old girl and a British-born rabbi - were killed when two gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Hanukkah event.

www.bbc.com

Prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.

I also wonder if the armed citizen could have changed the outcome?

I see so many good people doing good things, it is sometimes hard for me to fathom that small percentage of ugliness.
Dang the evil in this world!
CW

I too wondered about "the armed citizen". After this happening, it might be a good idea to arm Jews, if they consented, Licenced or otherwise. IMO