Joel Cauchi reportedly murdered 6 people at Westfield Bondi Junction Sydney on Saturday afternoon 13 April 2024.

[This is noting "Cauchi" is a rare name most commonly associated with Malta. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchi . Malta is a very small island state in the Mediterranean.]

"MailOnline on 14/4 at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13305759/Joel-Cauchi-identified-Westfield-Bondi-junction-knife-killer-Horrific-new-details-emerge.html reports:

"Joel Cauchi, 40, "murdered six people in a stabbing spree at Bondi Junction Westfield's shopping centre was looking for surfing buddies just days before the massacre.

Six innocent shoppers, including five women and a man, were stabbed to death at Bondi Junction Westfield's shopping Centre on Saturday at about 3.20pm.

Police identified the knifeman as 40-year-old man Joel Cauchi, who moved to Sydney from Queensland a month ago.

He lived with schizophrenia, and police are investigating a potential history of targeting women." Cauchi was shot dead by police.

...There is no suggestion that Cauchi was part of any particular ideology, with police treating the horrific attack as a mental-health-related incident..."

From the above MailOnline article - here is CCTV or shopper image of Cauchi carrying the knife at Westfield Bondi Junction http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/14/01/83605343-13305759-image-m-36_1713054054120.jpg

Another article where police identify "Joel Cauchi" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-14/nsw-police-have-identified-the-offender-of-the/103706030

Guns are controlled by a licence system, which would usually rule out guns for people with a severe mental illness. But knives are uncontrolled.

Hi Mavs,

I'm so glad that we have strict gun laws.

Imagine what the carnage could have been if we
didn't.

This is a shocking incident. I hope that the nine month
baby makes it. The mother, died.

Sydney, was where I grew up - and I have such happy memories
of Bondi. I can't even begin to imagine the shock that many
must be feeling, including the police officer - who was so
brave.

It will take a long time for people to recover from the shock
of this. Going shopping in the future will make us all nervous.

Hi Mavs,

Just a thought.

It's been mentioned that the attacker was suffering
from schizophrenia. I can't help thinking why
he wasn't under medication and in care? His family
must have known about his condition. We've been
told he was sleeping in his car, or at the back
of homeless shelters. And that he was looking for
people to befriend.

If he came from a nice family, where were they?

It would be a dreadful way to learn how your son
died this way.

A dreadful situation all round.

Those who want to look & speculate for causes of such horrible incidents should start by looking at the society that has evolved since socialist Leftism !

Hi Indyvidual,

The Mayo Clinic in the US tells us that a chemical
imbalance and other changes in the brain could
cause schizophrenia. They also say that it's not
easy to determine the causes because the symptoms
can vary from one person to another.

We're told that while factors seem to play a role,
other genetic factors seem to play a role, such as
childhood trauma (frightening or life threatening
things happening to you - such as abuse), stress,
problems at birth and significant drug use are also
associated with the illness.

Foxy,
Of course there are many circumstances but the most contributing factor to schizophrenia is drug abuse, not to be confused with drug use. Laws too have contributed a lot to the frustrations in modern society. But there's no getting away from the fact that Leftism has contributed considerably to the stresses of life by idocies such as political correctness, the relentless pushing into our faces of Lgbitxyz% & other stupidly dreamed-up artificial issues.