You’re reading Mia Freedman’s Babble newsletter. To get it in your inbox…… It feels too much to bear. Too much to process. The senselessness of it. The horror. The utter tragedy of the attack at Westfield Bondi Junction that ended six innocent lives on an ordinary Saturday afternoon and traumatised countless more.
It is awful, just awful. I know that mall well from when we lived in Sydney. Evil does not disappear because we wish it to be gone. 25 minutes this evil tool of Satan wandered around before being stopped. Maybe my Australian friends will question the wisdom of a disarmed populace after this. In a Florida mall, this bastard would have been dead in minutes, long before the police were alerted.
Thank you Mia for expressing what many of us are feeling. Back in the day when I was living in Sydney, I went to Bondi Junction often, with my 9 month old baby to shop, to meet for coffee, to get out of the house. That’s why this is so atrociously, desperately tragic. Hearts expanding here for everyone’s loss and for everyone who helped in whatever small or major way.
It is awful, just awful. I know that mall well from when we lived in Sydney. Evil does not disappear because we wish it to be gone. 25 minutes this evil tool of Satan wandered around before being stopped. Maybe my Australian friends will question the wisdom of a disarmed populace after this. In a Florida mall, this bastard would have been dead in minutes, long before the police were alerted.
Thank you Mia for expressing what many of us are feeling. Back in the day when I was living in Sydney, I went to Bondi Junction often, with my 9 month old baby to shop, to meet for coffee, to get out of the house. That’s why this is so atrociously, desperately tragic. Hearts expanding here for everyone’s loss and for everyone who helped in whatever small or major way.
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I’m so used to women being killed in their homes, one by one. I don’t know which should be more shocking.