Woman with weapon. Don't go to link if squeamish.

http://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/she-nearly-cut-my-head-in-half-evie-amati-axe-victim-ben-rimmer-breaks-silence/news-story/bc240cd9c7833474c1051b67a125906d

The man whose head was almost cut in half by axe attacker Evie Amati has broken his silence about his near death and his fury at her light prison sentence.

Ben Rimmer has revealed how Amati slammed the axe into his face and in an exclusive interview told news.com.au, “If I hadn’t turn my head at the last minute she would have cut my head in half.”

Mr Rimmer has released disturbing never-before-published photographs of him after the attack, and details of how his face is now held together with metal plates he can touch through his skin.

He is doing so in an effort to get Amati’s sentence increased on appeal. She was sentenced to a minimum of four and a half years behind bars, after her lawyer argued her transgender operation caused her immense pain and contributed to her later trying to kill strangers.

Ben has revealed his disgust at the light sentence Amati got for sinister attacks attempting to murder him and two others.

“She went there to kill. It’s only pure luck that I’m alive and she’s not remorseful. She’s intelligent … calculating,” he said.

“She’ll do her time easily and get paroled in mid-2021. It’s played out perfectly for her, perhaps better than she expected.”

Ben Rimmer believes Amati, who news.com.au reported was an arrogant and lazy union staffer with a huge sense of entitlement when working as an organiser for the CPSU, will walk out of prison scot-free in mid-2021 and won’t be reformed.

On the night a drugged-up Amati took the 2kg axe she had bought two months earlier, Ben Rimmer was on his way home when he made the fateful decision to stop at the Enmore 7-Eleven to buy a pie at 2.20am on Saturday, January 7, 2017.

Unknown to Mr Rimmer, his life was about to change forever at the hands of Amati who just one hour earlier at 1.13am posted on social media, “One day I am going to kill a lot of people”.

Philip S- A few months ago I put here statistics from the US that more people had been saved by someone with a gun intervening than had been killed by people with guns.

Answer- Thanks for doing the research. Interesting.

No research just stumbled across the report.

Something MSM never reported as far as I could see.

To paraphrase Orwell- In a time of universal change- traditionalism is an extremist act.

If there was a link between gun ownership and the rate of homicide then as the rate of gun ownership goes up, the rate of homicide would go up. The opposite occurs. Gun ownership has risen significantly over the past 3 decades while homicide rates have fallen significantly over the past 3 decades.

If there was a link between gun control and homicide rates Chicago (which has the most restrictive gun laws in the country) wouldn't have one of the highest murder rates in the US.

If there was a link between gun ownership and homicide, white homicide rates would be roughly equal to that of other races. If fact white rates are lower than those for England and many other first world countries.

Homicide rates in the US are high because of the gang culture which fuels turf wars over primarily drug distribution.

If only there was a way to reduce illegal drug importation into the US. You know, by having something like a physical barrier on the boarder.

AC,

Was it ever revealed what John Howard actually did - if anything at all? The only thing I heard was that "he stayed with the woman". Seems to me that he 'prevented' nothing at all.