Mass stabbing event in Sydney - **Read OP before posting**

Stop and search is racist. It's also pointless in this situation.

If it wasn't then drug related stop and search in London would target white people in suits around the London Bridge area or around Bank which are absolutely drowning in cocaine.

Only my black friends have been stopped in London. None of my equally drugged up white friends were.

I loved there for a few years.

They're not as strict as people think. Illegal immigrants have been granted residency if they do regional work for five years.

Plus an Indian colleague told me that there's a whole reference industry in India that give false testimony for Aussie immigration when references are being checked.

Interestingly Aussie immigration never checked our Irish references even though it was advertised that that would happen for our sponsorship visa.

They talk a tough talk but their immigration system is full of holes.

No it doesn't mean that. Men are dangerous, to themselves and to women. Arming dangerous men is a bad idea. If you develop a test for identifying the non dangerous ones, we can reconsider that.

Women OTOH are the ones who are victims of men, and the main reason there are fewer female victims is because there are already many places where women limit their own freedom and just don't go there already - don't go out running at night, don't walk home on their own etc etc. If women took the freedoms that men do, there'd be far more female victims. So the number isn't an excuse - quite the opposite.

We have seen in Ireland ludicrous suggestions that men need to be trained not to be violent and even that men should need a licence to go out in public.

You do realise that that comment was made ironically? Precisely because nobody would take such a suggestion seriously, but women have often been told not to go out alone?

That you've turned an ironic comment into a "narrative" is itself deeply ironic.

I am pretty confident putting tens of thousands of tasers out in public will only make things worse. Same would be true for guns or knifes.

gotcha. Didn’t think of this side of it.

Look, I'm not getting into a gender wars type thing here but I will say one thing. I think you're looking a this from an entirely single gendered point of view. Do you think the average man doesn't also limit their own freedoms to keep themselves safe? Plenty of places I would never dream of going on my own or even as part of a group and I'm pretty big. I'm also missing part of a tooth because of an unprovoked assault in my home town. My closest friend who lives in Dublin has been mugged 3 times over 20 years, the last one he was knocked unconscious. Men are not exactly sitting high and dry here.

Most men understand exactly what women fear when it comes to violence because they fear it too but we haven't figured out how to keep ourselves entirely safe so it's kind of irritating when somebody screams "What about women?!". It affects us all, so lets start from there maybe?

Got any numbers for that? Because I think you'll find that, at best, children are killed in roughly even numbers by parents - and that the main reason women figure in such unusually high numbers in this crime is because women do the vast majority of child care.

Once couples separate, men are responsible for about 70% of child murders.

So no, women are not more dangerous to children than men.

I grew up with all that. It was grand.

I mean, sure, it's far nicer not to need it - don't get me wrong! But as an alternative to being stabbed randomly? I'm happy to go through a security check at shopping centres etc in that case.

Exactly .

Black man ..must be an immigrant or Muslim ..Terrorist .

Affluent neighbourhood ? ..Jewish someone said ...repeated as fact .

Its very touristy area that's why it's affluent , and with loads of young Irish people staying and living nearby.

Loads of families around there and here up the walls with worry absolutely don"t need this nonsense FB /Insta style posting.

Just heard one of my lads and friends are safe thank god .This is their locality .

Wait for the facts why don't ye which came out pretty soon .

Local , known to the police ..not terrorist related .

Why are you getting so offended on the behalf of violent men?

How do you know her name but not every mass murdering male?

It's a white dude called David Irvine appaz