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Samizdata quote of the day – A salute to the unbowed spirit of everyday valour Amid the screams and pandemonium, one man stood tall: Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old Syrian-born Muslim Australian and father of two.
Video footage, now viral across the globe, captures his instinctive charge, wrestling a firearm from one assailant, disarming him despite the peril. Injured but unyielding, al-Ahmed’s actions halted the rampage’s escalation, saving untold lives in that sun-kissed haven turned hellscape. Hailed as a hero by officials worldwide, his bravery bridges divides: Jewish donors have rallied to raise $1.3 million via GoFundMe for his recovery, praising his “selfless, instinctive, and undeniably heroic actions.” In a world fractured by suspicion, here is unity forged in fire. Award this man the George Cross, the Commonwealth’s pinnacle of civilian gallantry, let it gleam as a beacon for all who dare to protect the innocent.
– Gawain Towler
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I would not be surprised if a) the allies of the Bondi Beach shooters do not take revenge on him, and b) Australian law enforcement had/have no plans in place to protect him and his family.
Subotai Bahadur
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/special-moment-london-bridge-terror-30148666
Meanwhile the heroism of Roy Larner, the Lion of London Bridge, remains largely unrecognised – except by every decent “normal” person. It’s a shame no-one thought of setting up a GoFundMe for him but maybe that wasn’t customary at the time.
I hope the equally brave Ahmed is better treated by our lords and masters.
But our society and certainly the leaders of our society don’t want these people. They aren’t authorized, after all. They haven’t taken the right health and safety courses. They don’t have a badge or a certificate. That is why this brave man had to rush the guy at enormous risk. Had he been carrying a pistol he could have effected the same result with much less personal risk. But the authorities don’t want that. They want only the people who work for them to have such weapons.
And of course we also have to remember that the risk to these heroes does not just come from the criminal, but the state itself puts them at risk. Risk of prosecution, risk of lawsuit, risk of arrest. One need only to ask Daniel Penny how smart it is to take on the crazy subway guy.
Another thing I thought about this was the inevitable reaction in Australia will be to make their already draconian weapons laws even more draconian. But it strikes me that if banning guns is a good idea to stop the violence, would it not equally be a good idea to ban Muslims too? WHAT I hear the yelling. Islam is a religion of peace. Only a tiny majority of Muslims would do such a thing. And I’d look on aghast that the parallels with the vastly more law abiding than average gun owning community are apparently lost as the person’s brains explode. “Don’t you know that the first amendment protects people’s right to their religion?”. And I shake my head that the obvious retort from an American is completely lost on them.
“But”, they reply, thinking they have a devastating reply, “The hero was a Muslim too!”, never occurring to them that the vast majority of gun owners are also the hero rather than the villain.
Of course I am not at all suggesting we ban Muslims, of course not. but it is surely illustrative of the absurdity of the gun regulation culture that makes us much less safe; because headlines are far more convincing than statistics.