Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.
Ahmed El Ahmed, from Idlib in Syria according to a relative, went up unarmed against one of the attackers, wrested his gun away and turned it on the terrorist, forcing him to flee, as footage shown by Al Jazeera demonstrates…
Not really, an untrained shooter is almost as much a danger to the very people they are trying to protect if they do not know how to properly control the weapon.
I beg to differ. I don’t think it could have gotten any worse than the shooter going back to their stack of weapons and continuing the murder spree.
Can you describe your worst scenario?
The untrained shooter loses control on their weapon and fires into the crowd thus doubling the amount of damage done. The weapon fails to function properly and in his attempts to clear the stoppage the untrained shooter ends up misfiring into the crowd or he injures himself. Under stress, the untrained shooter has no idea what to do and continues to fire.
There was no crowd there.
Well then that’s perfectly alright then. I will defer to your obvious extensive expertise in firearms.
I appreciate your concern for handling firearms, but the are situations when taking a risk is better than not doing anything.