This is such an infuriating topic when people who clearly don't look at the FACTS, make these insane comments "that they believe"!
There are a handful of facts that have come out, cold hard facts!
1. The AFP did not know whether he had a bomb attached to him or not, he was wearing a backpack the whole time. If he did & especially if he had a dead man switch, things end badly.
2. The glass was bullet resistant, as all windows in martin place are! What does this mean? It means that a bullet will not go through the window at first go unless they had explosive, armour piercing shells & even then the accuracy drops significantly which means there's still a fair bit of a chance that he could of missed. If they took a shot and missed, he probably would of slauted them all or let off "the bomb" they they didn't know if he had.
3. The inside of the store is made of marble, most bullets ricochet off marble. I hopefully don't have to explain why that's another reason why they didn't shoot. It's how Katrina Dawson died.
4. As someone else said, their mandate is to always try and end things peacefully, until the 2.00am mark, he hadn't hurt anyone, even when most had escaped. Things obviously changed at that point.
5. He requested an ISIS flag, a conversation with Abbott & a helicopter to land in martin place and take him away, we under no circumstances negotiate with Terrorists. Simple.
We were dealing with a murderous criminal with history of Violent crime, fraud, Postal harassment, sexual assaults & accessory to murder.
Combine that with requesting and ISIS flag and saying he has a bomb strapped to him, they did everything that they could causing as minimal collateral damage as possible
There is no substance to shit like bad Pr, or "they should have taken the shot". They always have a mandate and a protocol, and I believe they followed it correctly and got as good of a result as they possibly could.