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Originally posted by Raist
A knife can be very deadly when most people around are not going to try and stop the wielder of the knife.
At a distance a crossbow or even a compound bow can be very deadly to a great number of people.
A machete being wielded will certainly take a number of lives as will a sword with an edge.
Regardless this is why I say we need to focus and get governments to focus on the real issue of mental health. They will listen if the push for it is great enough, they have no other choice.
Raist
Originally posted by intrepid
Why would they not? I sure as hell would. Not leaving my future in anyone elses hands.
Are you allowed to carry them in public in the States? Even if, I could handle that with short pipe. They tuck nicely in your back.
Yes but it takes MUCH greater skill to use those weapons.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Uh-oh, I cant carry a blade longer than 3" in public. Guess I'm SOL and cant murder a bunch of people today.
Originally posted by butcherguy
It really takes more skill to be accomplished with a knife than most people think.
Most don't even know how to grip a knife properly.
Originally posted by VaterOrlaag
Leave it to ATS to turn every thread about a shooting or stabbing into a debate over the "evil" gun control.
Pretty damn pathetic when there are dead people to think about.
How much longer is this going to continue before people stop to ponder the lives lost?
How many more bodies are going to pile up?
Originally posted by NavyDoc
Originally posted by VaterOrlaag
Leave it to ATS to turn every thread about a shooting or stabbing into a debate over the "evil" gun control.
Pretty damn pathetic when there are dead people to think about.
How much longer is this going to continue before people stop to ponder the lives lost?
How many more bodies are going to pile up?
And yet, with your last phrase, we see how anti gunners use every massacre to push their agenda. Where is the outrage on this vulture-like activity?
Originally posted by butcherguy
Most of these mass shooting/knifing things are very opportunistic on the part of the perpetrator.
Shooting kids in a school, people in a movie theater, knocking on every door in the neighborhood and shooting the person with a pistol when they answer it. X-acto knife-man was going from building to building on campus stabbing girls in their faces. It isn't as if any of them were actually participating in combat.
None of these are accomplished killers. I doubt many would have stood long if action had been taken by an experienced person against them.
One sailor and two airman were wounded at the late night shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, the U.S. Defense Dept. found. One sailor is still unaccounted for.
Originally posted by WhiteAlice
Unfortunately, I wish that, for the sake of the wound military and all the citizens that that had been the case. I think that what has made some of these things fairly effective has been the element of surprise. We just don't expect something like to happen in everyday type of places here. I have a friend who was at Macy's in the shopping center shooting before Christmas and he didn't even think that what was happening right before him was real because it was so outside of what we consider "normal" life.
Like trained military?
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Uh-oh, I cant carry a blade longer than 3" in public. Guess I'm SOL and cant murder a bunch of people today.
Uh-huh. And that sword isn't visible? How fast do you run? Do you actually know how to use a blade? How about energy? You DO know it takes a lot more energy to wield a blade than pull a trigger, right? Wanna try again?
Originally posted by Raist
reply to post by intrepid
Do not underestimate trigger pull weight.
The trigger pull weight can require a lot of energy, even more so to accurately aim and pull the trigger.