Australian Attack Illustrates The Importance Of Fighting Back

By Tom Knighton

Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP

It didn’t make a lot of headlines here in the United States, but there was a knife attack in Australia yesterday. While experts say it wasn’t a terrorist attack, the suspect apparently had a lot of jihadist material on a USB drive and may have yelled “Allah Ackbar” prior to his attack.

But nope, not terrorism, apparently.

Regardless, part of the reason we didn’t hear much about it was that it wasn’t as bad an attack as it could have been. Part of that is because rather than running in panic, a bunch of Aussies and a couple of Brits in the area chased the man down.

Aussies and Brits – including some young men from Manchester – chased the stabber through the streets of Sydney’s CBD. The footage is stirring: they surround him and follow him, determined to prevent him from stabbing any more people.

Eventually they caught him and, armed with little more than a wicker chair and a crate, they pinned him to the ground, in a makeshift mini-prison, until the cops came.

Just witnessed incredible bravery from members of the public and ⁦@FRNSW⁩ officers chasing down a man on a stabbing …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms