Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

SCIENCE said:

Then why didn’t he put the gun down straight away¿

Just to be clear, we’re not in any way suggesting that we own a fruit shop, or that we would have jumped the guy of course like any real men would do, or that Ahmed Al Ahmed should have been better and had the time to consider all these matters in the seconds he had to act. We’re asking if it’s at all possible (even if it required training andor drug induced psychotic disregard for one’s own personal safety, but not completely outside the realm of possibility) there was an even better course of action for an individual in those circumstances.

For example, if you’re stopping a knife wielding attacker, once you have their knife, do you need to wave it in their face and then let them run to the kitchen and grab another knife, or can you secure the knife (in an inert object, or having someone else look after it) and then prevent the attacker from refreshing their attack¿

He probably pointed the gun at the shooter as an instinctively aggressively stance, meaning “You’re not getting this gun back mister, so fuck off…”

Very likely Mr Ahmed was unaware that the shooter had other guns to use.

Ahmed al Ahmed has had a lot of money donated to him (via Go Fund Me) from people all around the world who appreciate the amazing thing he has done. Currently the pledges approach $2M, up from $1.2M, 7 hours ago.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/zbcjn-support-the-hero-who-disarmed-a-bondi-attacker?ts=1765751457&utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

He was shot a number of times in the shoulder apparently. So he is going to be suffering from that for quite a while.