'Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot

There's a large American population on lemmy, I know it's a common view but thankfully it's the minority one.

Brainworms. Fuck your freedum bullshit, we don't want or need your sick gun culture in Australia.

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

As a gun enthusiast, get the fuck away from me.

Automatic weapons are used in "spray and pray" situations with large crowds.

The Las Vegas shooter modified his weapons for automatic fire resulting in 60 deaths, 413 wounded, and a total of 867 injuries due to the panic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

It stands as the deadliest mass shooting in US history. So, yeah, in a crowded situation, automatic weapons are far, far, worse.

This might be the dumbest opinion I've ever read on here

Tell me your only exposure to automatic weapons is Call of Duty without telling me.

Probably because in a shopping mall you don't need to be accurate in the slightest to kill others.

Automatics are stupid hard to shoot accurately.

I can't even...

So you're telling me the military uses an AR instead of an LMG for suppressive fire?

What about my full auto Knife? More Dangerous than a Knife or less?

Oh boy, I might make my first NCD Post out of this Aneurysm of a Post 😂

My wife is a reg-force infanteer. At the kind of distances you're firing at inside of a shopping mall she could comfortably dump a ten round burst into a person's torso and not miss a shot. Even an untrained shooter could easily land a lot of lethal hits if they were firing into a crowd. And yes, automatic fire is absolutely used in urban combat; at close ranges it is very easy to control a fully automatic weapon sufficiently for that. The standard strategy is to aim for the navel and let your fire carry up the torso; it's known as "zippering". When intentionally controlled by the shooter these weapons do not jump around anything like the way you've seen in video games.

Also, generally full auto is not that great for suppressing fire, unless you're talking about a machine gun. With an assault rifle you're better off maintaining steady suppression in semi-auto. It's not so much the volume of fire that keeps a target's head down as it is the consistency. Dumping a whole mag and then stopping to reload gives them plenty of time to set up and start laying hate on your position. There are exceptions like Aussie Peel Out, but they're rare. For the part talking guns is the way it's done.

That's without even getting into the fact that saying "automatic weapon" doesn't necessarily mean "fully automatic" (hence why the word "fully" is usually in there; if there wasn't any ambiguity, why is it necessary to specify?). It's much more likely that the previous commenter was referring to any form of self-loading weapon.

That is 100% factually incorrect.

You have a point.

How many shootings do we see that have fewer victims than this?

That's all I think about whenever I hear about a sick fucko intent on killing.

With a gun, the numbers would be significantly higher.

I wouldn’t get anxious over this.

It’s so extremely rare here, I’d be more worried about a car if I was going to worry at all.

Life is impermanent, it's true. The good news is that once you die you don't give a fuck so there's a relatively small window where you'd regret your decision. It's important to focus on the positive parts of life so you can enjoy it - that's by no means easy - but it is important.