A man shot by police after stabbing three people in Melbourne's Bourke Street has died.

Police shot the man in the chest after he charged at the police officers with a knife. The man shot died in hospital.

Some put comments online like: "You are a hero. Well done". Why is someone a hero for killing someone else with a gun? Why do two wrongs make a right? What ever happened to the sanctity of life?

One woman affected by recent gun shootings in the United States, came out and said: "I don't wan't any more prayers, I want gun control".

So this is why I will not support a selective approach to gun violence. It's an all or nothing approach. This could lead to more or less killing through gun use, but aren't a good percentage of people looking for less gun related violence?

What happened to the baton? Why is there no technology apart from "shoot in the chest"? Roman gladiators had nets , shields and tridents but today it's just a fatal pistol bullet.

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Expandable baton in Australia, telescopic, friction lock extendable baton ... your knees when you are running (the police long baton does this very efficiently).

Nothing about why the person was shot, Nathan! This is an absurd comment by a person clearly incapable of rational thinking

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who?

Mainstream Australia will never agree with our author
Watching the vermin trying to kill even more my fear was he may have killed a cop
In fact that very very brave young cop held his ground too long, unlike in another country we could talk about
Police did the right thing
Efforts to undermine them may make the next cop a dead cop
I do however want to underline the thought behind this is just as stupid as Islamophobia or radical Islam
see you in another thread

A man with a cafe knife was shot dead here by police. Self defence is meant to be proportional to the threat. Knives don't shoot bullets which is why the man with shopping trolley was able to hit the man.