Here’s one that got my teeth chattering with rage:
The man who has become the face of the many brave deeds by everyday Australians during the Bondi Beach attack has revealed why he didn’t shoot back at the gunmen.
Ahmed Al Ahmed, 43, skyrocketed to worldwide fame after he risked his life when he wrestled a firearm from mass shooter Sajid Akram on December 14.
Police alleged Sajid and his son, Naveed Akram, opened fire on a Jewish festival celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach.
Police fatally shot Sajid and wounded Naveed, bringing an end to the horrific attack, but not before 15 innocent people had been gunned down and dozens more injured.
At one point during the attack, Mr Ahmed snatched a gun from Sajid and pointed it back at him. He refused to shoot, despite having been shot five times himself.
Wait: you disarm a guy who’s been shooting and killing total strangers, and instead of shooting the bastard dead with his own gun, you… let him go?
While in New York he was asked why he didn’t shoot when he had the weapon pointed at the gunman.
Yeah, I was kinda wondering that myself.
He said he didn’t pull the trigger because he was not seeking revenge.
‘I didn’t shoot him because I was doing it as humility, to stop him to kill more innocent human beings,’ he said, adding that he was also not concerned for his safety, but rather the people at the beach.
I hate to say this, you absolute schmuck, but letting him go simply allowed him to get another gun and shoot more people.
Your self-righteous “humility” came at the expense of more victims.
Let me tell you: a guy shoots me half a dozen times or whatever, I somehow survive and get hold of his (still-loaded) gun… guess what happens next?
If you guessed “the asshole’s brains are suddenly exposed to the open air and parts thereof become fertilizer for the lawn he’s standing on”, get a gold star and collect your prize at the door on the way out.
“Oh no, I’m too good for revenge” my aching African-America ass.
I need to stop now before I get really upset.
Akcherly the lesson I take from this is that in his mind it is perfectly OK to kill for revenge and that he has no issue with the fellows shooting for their perceived revenge motive. Anyone who counts the fellow as a well adjusted Aussie citizen had better watch their six.
“‘I didn’t shoot him because I was doing it as humility….”
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From the very beginning I knew there was something seriously wrong with this story.
Still do.
Be advised. If a motherfucker points a gun at me and I get the upper hand he will be shot dead.
Why?
Because as long as he continues to walk this earth he will be a threat to me and I won’t have that. Period.
Here he’d have been arrested for holding a firearm without a license after taking it from the shooter, and thrown in prison for a decade, while the mass shooter would get off with a warning to never do it again after claiming that “in his culture this is normal, I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to do it”.
Result: nobody dares interfere with any criminal in any way and nobody assists the police because doing so is more risky than looking the other way.
I would have bet that he didn’t shoot back because there’s some verse in the Koran that tells him not to kill another muslim, especially when said other muslim is actively killing jews. But that’s just me, good old racist me.
That’s what I came here to say.
The narrative surrounding that incident does have some holes in it. Some speculation that comes to mind:
Maybe he didn’t shoot because he believed the authorities would make his life miserable if he did. Not too far-fetched given the Australian government’s attitude toward self-defense and firearms. He is, after all, more a subject than a citizen.
Maybe he did not know how to operate the rifle. Maybe he *did* pull the trigger on an expended cartridge and didn’t he know how to work the bolt to bring a live round into the chamber. Perhaps the safety got engaged during the struggle and he couldn’t put it back on fire.
Perhaps he realized that the shooter was a fellow Muslim engaged in a legitimate act of Jihad. Killing Jews is kind of baked into their scriptures. Maybe he realized he was interfering with his God’s business.
I don’t buy Ahmed’s story of being too good a person to shoot back at the villain.
Two theories;
1. he didn’t know how to operate the shotgun/rifle,
2. he saw the other shooter still armed and active and surrendered.
Any reasonable person would have shot the mongrel dead, dead, dead.