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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] itslilith 61 points 10 months ago

that's why militaries around the world have lately switched to knifes as primary service weapons and trained their soldiers like the ninjas of old

fucking brain rot

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Where did I say anything like that? I was pointing out that automatic weapons have shit accuracy. It's not my fault you can't understand that.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 31 points 10 months ago

And you need laser perfect accuracy to fire into a crowd of people? Are you fucking mentally disabled?

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

To kill yes, wound no. Bullets don't magically aim themselves at vital organs.

[-] itslilith 18 points 10 months ago

if you're trolling, I congratulate the bit

if not, holy shit dude, get a grip

[-] PhatInferno@midwest.social 4 points 9 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

[-] PhatInferno@midwest.social 1 points 9 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.world 11 points 10 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.world 1 points 10 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.world 10 points 10 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.world 1 points 10 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.

[-] Icalasari@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Last I checked, you kinda need lungs to breathe. And also last I checked, arms and legs aren't organs

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You can live with one lung..this isn't rocket science.

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