The same sickness that led to Bondi Beach massacre in Australia exists in this country

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I woke up Sunday morning to a photograph I never expected to see: my friend, human-rights lawyer and regular National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky, bloodied among the walking wounded at Bondi Beach.

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Arsen is now in hospital — and extraordinarily lucky to be alive. A bullet grazed the top of his head. Doctors have told him that had it been a few millimetres lower, he would almost certainly have been killed.

The attack took place during a Hanukkah celebration on one of Australia’s most iconic beaches. Initial reports indicate that two perpetrators opened fire on the gathering — one now dead, the other hospitalized. Multiple people were killed, with dozens more injured.

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