Ten people were dead after a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach – Copyright AFP DAVID GRAY
The Bondi shooting was the worst shooting in Australia in nearly 30 years. Everyone’s illiterate, squeaky agendas have now come out of their stupor, while so many have died.
Facts have been lost and incredibly garbled in commentary.
The facts so far are:
According to NSW police, 16 people died and 40 were injured.
The shooters targeted a Jewish celebration.
A father and son duo from far away in western Sydney were the alleged shooters.
The bystander who disarmed one of the shooters is named Ahmed al Ahmed. He’s not a Bondi local, and he owns a fruit shop.
Bondi Beach is still locked down, and it’s an all too evocative, pitiful sight.
The world is now sanctimoniously saying Australia has a gun problem.
The bystander is being called a “hero” in inverted commas by the media around the world. Apparently, the world’s media outlets routinely disarm live shooters themselves all the time, so the use of the word “hero” is up to them.
Now read the current headlines from anywhere and everywhere.
This is coverage? According to whom?
It’s simplistic, superficial, pointless chatter. Things like “what we know” infest the two-dimensional news. OK, onsite coverage has to be like that, but the lack of interest in everything else is inexcusable.
Nobody’s asking:
How did people who live 20+ miles away know about a local gathering on Bondi Beach? Who told them? What’s the support network?
Was the Jewish community under surveillance from whoever/whatever initiated the attack?
Why were the shooters so well prepared to attack this celebration?
They were apparently using illegal weapons, at least one of which looked like it had automatic magazines. Shooting was said to have continued for ten minutes, and obviously, a lot of ammunition was used. How did they obtain the weapons? From whom?
You’d think these were relevant questions, but the media babble is all about gun control, political leadership, and whether or not Australia’s gun laws work.
It’s not about the fact that nobody else’s gun laws work at all.
It’s not about importing a disgusting, endless war from overseas.
It’s not about terrorists getting automatic weapons into Australia.
It’s not about future threats.
It’s not about adequate police resources or the fact that two police officers were injured in the shootings.
How about you sainted insular morons pay attention and do your jobs for a change?
People have died, and you’re regurgitating utterly useless political drivel with no depth whatsoever?
Were you unaware of the ongoing risks posed by the world’s cache of media-fed nutcases? Your so-called coverage drives some of these incidents.
FYI:
There are about as many illegal firearms in Australia as legal. That’s been the case for those 30 years. That’s also common knowledge.
Types of firearms are strictly regulated in Australia. Automatic weapons are specifically banned. They’re not sold in Australia and have to be imported. In some cases, the type of firearms can be modified to semiautomatic.
This incident has all the earmarks of a specifically targeted attack, which could happen anywhere on Earth and could encourage copycat attacks.
Australian security does monitor a range of groups considered high risk. That monitoring has been in place since the early 2000s. We’ll probably never know what else has been prevented, but this time was the exception.
Meanwhile, let’s see what comes out as investigations continue. Just shut up, lose the dogma, and get some hard facts.