XPost: aus.politics, alt.politics.media, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 8/15/2019 5:17 AM, Let's Ban Allah! wrote:   
   > Three British men are being hailed as heroes after confronting a   
   > knife-wielding man who killed one woman and wounded another in   
   > downtown Sydney before trying to stab others Tuesday while   
   > yelling "Allahu akbar," according to police and witnesses.   
   >   
   > The incident unfolded around 2 p.m. near a busy intersection in   
   > Australia's largest city when the man carrying a 12-inch knife   
   > attempted to stab multiple people, according to police.   
   > Witnesses said the man was attempting to attack people while   
   > yelling "Allahu akbar" -- "God is the greatest" in Arabic --   
   > before he was restrained by bystanders. Video taken by witnesses   
   > also showed him shouting the phrase.   
   >   
   > Fuller, who described the weapon as a butcher's knife, said a 41-   
   > year-old woman with a stab wound on her back was taken to a   
   > hospital in stable condition. The body of a 21-year-old woman   
   > was later discovered in a nearby fourth-floor apartment,   
   > according to police.   
   >   
   > Video showed the man running through an intersection, jumping on   
   > a car while waving a knife before a group of men pinned the   
   > suspect to the pavement on his back with a plastic milk crate   
   > over his head and two chairs over his body.   
      
   So in Oz when people can't carry guns for defense, at least   
   they can carry around plastic milk crates.  Meanwhile, it looks   
   like Oz should enact some of them there butcher's knife control   
   law thingies to stop anything like this from happening again.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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