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.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Lmao. I’m not telling you stories. I’m not claiming any greatness. And everyone in the US military has to qualify repeatedly throughout their career. Including machine gunners. Whose qual has a section where they have to put holes in 17 targets on a paper at about 10 meters. And that’s just to make sure the gunner and gun are okay before having them shoot pop up targets 400 to 800 meters away.

    Which means a qualified gunner can rock your shit at a range from which you probably won’t even see them.

    Now because I can already hear you saying, “but we’re talking about rifles!”, the gunner achieves that in the same way a rifleman with a full auto weapon would, by bursting. But there is no full auto rifle qual because they all have selector switches and we’re not idiots. There is however burst and full auto familiarization, where you learn the weapon is very controllable as long as you don’t mag dump like you’re a fucking Call of Duty player.

    And oh look it learned about boots and crayons. But I’m not a Marine. I am done here though. You’re an idiot, everyone obviously sees that and anyone who didn’t can now see why.