Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Here's the worst part of the Bondi Beach terror attack

This terror attack in Sydney is what everyone else has been saying it is: absolutely horrific. Antisemitic terrorism.

Sadly, this type of attack is happening and will keep happening more frequently, according to intelligence agencies. And the worst part is that it's almost impossible to stop.

Australia has what the world considers the 'gold standard' gun control. After the Port Arthur massacre, they tightened up the rules.

But it still has more guns now than it did back in the 90s - both in number and per capita.

Guns don't cause terror attacks of course. For that, you'll need radial fanatics with a screw loose. The internet is full of them. It's a great place to meet like-minded people, sadly.

We run very expensive security agencies in most Western countries whose job it is to track people down and prevent Bondi beach events.

In this case, ASIO knew about the son with the gun in Sydney as early as six years ago. There were links to ISIS. But it didn't stop him, did it?

Brenton Tarrant was posting about the God-awful things he was going to do up to a year beforehand online, but wasn't stopped, either.

Samsudeen - the guy who slit peoples' throats while they shopped for groceries in New Lynn - he was actually being watched and followed at the time and even he still managed to stab eight innocent people.

Some argue migration is the problem. They say Jews and Muslims have been fighting for centuries and that's where the problem lies. Except mass shootings are perpetrated by all different sorts of people for all different sorts of reasons.

There's left-wing extremism - the death of Charlie Kirk, the insurance assassin, the attempt on Trump are all suspected of being motivated by far-left extremists.

And then you've got right-wing extremism and radical Islamic terrorists. And then there's just completely crazy people who seem to have no motive, they just want to be famous or kill people for a body count like life is some video game.

The sad, disturbing, uncomfortable part of this attack is that it won't be the last, and there's very little it seems we can actually do to stop them.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bryan Bridge. This terror attack in Sydney is what everyone
else says and is saying. It is absolutely horrific anti
Semitic terrorism. That's what it is. Sadly, this type of
attack is happening and will keep happening more frequently, and
this is what our intelligence agencies tell us. The worst
part about it is that it seems almost impossible to stop.

(00:22):
Australia has what the world considers the gold standard gun control.
After the Port Arthur massacre, you'll remember they tightened up
the rules, but it still now has more guns than
it did back then in the nineties, both in number
and per capita. Guns, of course, don't cause terror attacks.
For that, you'll need radical fanatics with a screw loose,

(00:45):
and the Internet is full of them. It's a great place, unfortunately,
to go and meet like minded people. We run very
expensive security agencies in most Western countries whose job it
is to track people down and prevent Bondai Beach type events.
In this case, Arzo, their security intelligence agency, knew about
the sun with the gun in Sydney as early as

(01:07):
six years ago. There were links to ISIS. For goodness sakes,
didn't stop them, did it. Brenton Tarrant was posting about
the god awful things that he was going to do
up to a year beforehand online. He wasn't stopped either.
Sam Sadin, the guy who slipped people's throats while they
were shopping for groceries in New Lynn. Remember that he

(01:29):
was actually being watched and followed by security agencies at
the time, even he still managed to stab eight innocent
people in the shopping aisle. Some argue migration is the problem. Oh,
they say, well, Jews, the Jewish community, the Muslims, they've
been fighting for centuries and that's where the problem lies.
Except mass shootings are perpetrated by all sorts of people

(01:51):
for all sorts of different reasons. You've got left wing extremism,
look at what they're saying about the guy and Charlie Kirk,
the insurance assassin, and America the attempt on Trump. Then
you've got your far right extremists. You've got radical Islamic terrorists.
And then they're just completely crazy people who seem to
have no motive. They just want to either be famous

(02:14):
or kill people for a body count, like life is
some sort of video game. The sad, disturbing, uncomfortable part
of this attack is that I think everybody knows it
won't be the last one, and there is very little,
it seems, that we can actually do to stop them.
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