Naveed Akram previously known to security agencies, prime minister says. His gun-owning father, Sajid, was shot dead by police at the scene
The alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre, according to police.
Naveed Akram, 24, was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital with critical injuries. His 50-year-old father, who the Sydney Morning Herald first reported to be Sajid Akram, was shot dead by police.
The pair allegedly killed 15 people, with dozens more injured in the shootings, which took place on Sunday during a gathering to celebrate the first night of Hanukah.
The son was known to New South Wales police and security agencies, while his father had a firearms licence with six weapons registered to him. All six firearms have been recovered, police said.
It takes some reflection to ask how, in a country that has banned guns, a shooting spree can happen. All the normal critics who cry for banning guns are quiet because their only solution clearly doesn’t fucking work.
Normalize mental health care and broaden access to services, psych eval requirements to be licensed for gun ownership, MEDIA REFORM that make sure language and content are reflective of reality to prevent emotional people making life choices for others.
These are the changes that will fix society and how people are fed information to be tricked into stochastic terror. That pair did not commit this crime in a vacuum. They did this because they were pushed to feel this way by the information they had available.
All the normal critics who cry for banning guns are quiet because their only solution clearly doesn’t fucking work.
While nothing is going to be an absolute solution to this problem, if you compare Australia and America you’ll find that banning guns makes a pretty significant difference.
Came here to say this.
In response to a mass shooting in 1996 Australia passed strict gun regulations. Since then you can pretty much count the number of mass shootings in that country on one hand.
Compare that to Wikipedias list of mass shootings in the USA for just 2025. I stopped counting that list at 300.
It really doesn’t though, Australia had/has a much smaller and more spread out population, plus they have more guns in civ hands now than they did before the ban.
Australia also has a ton of safety nets for the population while the USA keeps removing them forcing people into poverty, and unfortunately poverty comes desperation, which a lot of the time falls into crime.
Australia has not “banned guns”. They have some very strict restrictions on who can own them, but they’re absolutely possible to obtain.
Fuck me there’s some ignorant people here.
Looking at the Wikipedia page on firearm related homicide rates by country, between 2014-2020 Australia had an average rate of 0.117 gun-related deaths per-100k inhabitants. On the other hand, the USA during that same time period had an average rate of 3.181 gun-related deaths per-100k inhabitants.
When compared, the USA had on average 2715% more gun-related deaths per-capita than Australia between 2014-2020, that’s 27x. This should make it obvious that the tighter gun restriction policies of Australia make a significant difference in contrast to the USA’s very loose policies around gun ownership, a far cry from “doesn’t fucking work”.
Are you an anti-vaxxer? Are you against seat belts? Are you against using antiseptics on open wounds? Are you anti condoms? Anti washing your hands? Anti brushing your teeth?
