A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach “acted alone” and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-shooting-act-alone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #terrorism #massshootings #guns
Police say Bondi Beach mass shooting suspects ‘acted alone’

Sajid Akram and his son Naveed allegedly killed 15 people in an Islamic State group-inspired attack targeting a Jewish festival on Dec. 14.

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Families of Bondi Beach shooting victims have urged Australia’s prime minister to launch a royal commission — an independent public inquiry — into the “rapid rise of antisemitism” in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/crime-legal/bondi-families-antisemitism-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #australia #bondibeach #massshootings #massmurder #guns #anthonyalbanese
Bondi shooting families want probe into ‘rise of antisemitism’ in Australia

Seventeen families of victims of the shooting have issued a letter calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to convene a royal commission for the purpose.

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Gun Control Works: Senator Destroys Dana Bash’s False Premise With Facts

CNN framing collapses as a senator explains why strong gun laws save lives—and why Trump reversed proven violence prevention.

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The Australian state of New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — is introducing what it calls the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-state-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #guns #massshootings #massmurder #bondibeach #anthonyalbanese #gunlaws
Australian state pushes tough gun laws and ‘terror symbols’ ban after shooting

New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — recalled its parliament to introduce what it called the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.”

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Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight to honor the Bondi Beach shooting victims, marking one week since gunmen fired into crowds at a Jewish festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-vigil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #massshootings #australia #sydney #bondibeach #discrimination #judaism #terrorism
Australia falls silent and lights candles for Bondi Beach shooting victims

A father and son are accused of targeting the beachside Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people including children and Holocaust survivors.

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Nine people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a bar outside Johannesburg, police said, in the second such shooting in South Africa this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/21/world/crime-legal/mass-shooting-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #southafrica #johannesburg #massshootings
Gunmen kill nine, wound 10 in South Africa bar attack

South Africa, the continent's most industrialized nation, is grappling with a high crime rate, much of it driven by organized networks and gangs.

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NBC News: How a Reddit tipster cracked the Brown University and MIT shooting cases. “Having unleashed a multiagency manhunt — involving the Providence police, the FBI and a $50,000 reward — the clue investigators needed in the Brown University shooting was ultimately found not on a street corner but in a Reddit thread.”

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What’s coming after the Australia Bondi Beach shooting is unimaginable.

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#Immigrants are not statistically more likely to carry out #massshootings than natural-born citizens.

A Cato Institute study published in April showed that from 1966 to 2024, 85.6 percent of mass shooters in the #UnitedStates were natural-born citizens, while 14.4 percent were foreign born; that’s roughly in line with the foreign-born population, which is around 14.3 percent of people living in the United States, according to the American Immigration Council
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How Immigrant Mass Shooters Compare to American Mass Shooters

Criminologists told Newsweek there's little connection between immigration status and mass shootings.

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Searching for the suspect's motive in the Brown University shooting, investigators were examining Claudio Neves Valente's earliest days in academia, which took him from the University of Lisbon to the U.S. Northeast. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/crime-legal/brown-university-shooter-academia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #brownuniversity #mit #massshootings #guns #murder #us
U.S. probes Brown University shooter's failed past in academia

A quarter of a century ago, Claudio Neves Valente was briefly enrolled as a promising young doctoral student in the physics department at the school before dropping out.

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