What more can be done to prevent deadly rampages in Melbourne's CBD? | 7.30



Melburnians are still trying to make sense of the latest tragedy in the CBD after an out-of-control car drove down Bourke Street, …

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  1. Keep your eyes open at all times! Crazy folks are living among us, and we would not know when one would snap and strike out!!! Locking up and heavy medication aren't the solution.

  2. take care on the roads, especially CBD areas where there is normally traffic anyway so there's not much opportunity to speed up. Incidents like these appear very cabled, it's on show due to an agenda.

  3. Look at all the money Jeff Kennet saved putting mental patients in the streets.
    Then all the mental patients the "recreational" drug industry created making us a top ranking drug addicted state.
    Then get crimes classed as "mental health" incudents so a rosier picture is painted by ignoring so much crime.
    Our "nothing we can do about it" Police at work encouraged by the criminal justice system.
    Expect to see more of these types of tragedies , but on a lesser scale daily.
    Planning by government for more "look over there" moments to distract us.
    Any organisations we know who might have blood on their hands pushing their views?

  4. If someone was running down the street slashing passers-by with a knife or firing a gun at them , officers would use deadly force .
    A car is no different , when driven recklessly, it is a deadly weapon . Police should be allowed , make that instructed, to use corresponding measures . Use the pit maneuver yes , but officers on foot should be allowed to fire at the driver too.
    Whatever it takes , prioritise the welfare of the general public over that of an active criminal . It's the reasonable thing to do.

  5. It seems like people who commit these crimes demonstrate themselves to be very, very unwell over and over again but the system just fails to act in any meaningful way to intervene. Gargasoulas is a perfect example. The ABC did a full story covering how utterly dangerous and obviously insane he was and he was repeatedly allowed back onto the streets. When it came time to determine why, everyone who could have intervened threw up their hands and insisted it wasn't their fault. And it isn't just attacks like these, Jill Magher's murderer is another lunatic who should never have been wandering around preying on people but was because of a completely dysfunctional system that apparently cannot determine a clear and present danger when presented with one.

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