In a video, the bystander was seen running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from him before pointing the weapon back at him.

A bystander hailed a hero after he tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen in the Bondi Beach shooting is a shop owner.

The man, named by a relative as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, was seen in a video running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from his hands before pointing the weapon back at him.

The footage then showed the terrorist heading towards a bridge where another gunman was located, while the bystander placed the gun beside a tree.

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[–] 106 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a fruit store.

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  • [–] 139 points 11 months ago (18 children)

    Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him "Edward Crabtree" and cover up the fact that he's Muslim

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    MAGAs are perfectly willing to lie to advance their agenda, they think lying and cheating are perfectly legitimate tools. If their opponents choose to not use those strategies out of sense of morality, that's on them. MAGAs feel no obligation to comply.

    This will be the first election where AI and deep fakes are fully available. I've been waiting for this moment, and here it is. Which party will embrace deep fakes, and try to run campaign ads featuring their opponents saying and doing fraudulent things? I think we all know.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Most of them at the beginning of any operation are Russian/Iranian bots (both real people and LLMs) whose entire job it is to rile people up and get the MAGA-types to latch on and grow the sentiment organically. But again, who cares what they say? Just ignore or silence them as quickly and cleanly as possible.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I'll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don't know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Dad lived a life of violence when he was young. He advised me to attack the weapon, not the man. This guy focused on the weapon, not beating ass. Good on him.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Your dad is right — but if you only go for the business end of the weapon, then a simple rotation can put you in front of the business end. You want to stay on the end towards the enemy, and keep your body towards their body.

    Go for the hands, and turn your body into their body. Use that leverage to wrest the weapon. Obviously easier said than done. Somehow Ahmed did it perfectly.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I like how the media is hammering in the identity of the hero not because of "DEI" or "wokeness", but to counter the obvious bad faith right wing actors that would spread fake news.

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Mr Ahmed, who was wearing a white T-shirt, was shot twice in the incident and was due to have surgery, his cousin, Mustafa, has revealed.

    Who shot him? I'm assuming the terrorist. Or was it the cops?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, I'm a little unclear on that, too. It seems like he disarmed the first shooter, and the second shooter must have shot the hero from the bridge. I think that's what happened. Somehow one shooter (Dad) ended up dead, and the other (Son) wounded, but I'm not sure which was which.

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  • [–] 40 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Bet the republikkkans won't call this man a hero. He isn't white.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    And he didn’t have a gun himself. Breaking their myth that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What about a good guy who takes away the bad guy's gun? That's new territory for rationalizationists.

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    [+] -15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

    Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can't jerk off comfortably.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there's absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn't shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don't know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I've heard lots of soldiers are traumatized by having to kill. WW2 has seen bloody battles where many soldiers never actually fired a rifle. It's hard for a healthy, well adjusted human to kill another human being, and it's supposed to be. It sucks that war forces us to go against this nature.

    I will never blame someone for not killing, even when killing would have been justified, or even laudable.

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  • [+] -8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Nah, I'm a stern believer of forced castration for people like this. Shoot his junk off.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn't actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.

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