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yeah but you cannot kill 40 people in 20 seconds with a knife... come on guns are just wrong

• AstralStorm 9y ago
  Cannot easily do that with a handgun either.
  • danmaz74 9y ago
    The point is that you can easily do that with guns you can easily and legally buy in the US, and then applying a kit that you can also easily and buy in the US to make them fully automatic.
• mmjaa 9y ago
  I can defend myself against a knife-wielding maniac with a gun far better than I can defend myself against a knife-wielding maniac with .. another knife. So, just keep that in mind in the equation. Knife crime is absolutely heinous in the UK - it does not get the attention it deserves. Banning guns didn't fix that. Just made it harder to defence oneself against a blade, which is part of the UK policy - the individual is not allowed to defend themselves, and must depend on the state for that service .. and then only when its severe, i.e. likely to get a politician in trouble. Check the stats, down-voters: the UK has one of the worst statistics for violent knife crime trauma of all the western nations. Its nothing to be proud of.
  • jjaredsimpson 9y ago
    Policy shouldn't be optimized to address these outlier events. Knife wielding maniacs aren't a real problem. Spousal abuse and suicide are.
    • mmjaa 9y ago
      Ah, but knife-wielding maniacs are a real problem in the UK. Knives should be banned in the UK.