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Pass common sense sword control laws now!
Seriously though, this, and the other bladed weapon attacks mentioned in the article, illustrate that targeting certain kinds of weapons is ineffective in preventing these violent attacks. We need to identify and intervene before any attack happens.
Sweden: 0 deaths
Average days between fatal shooting at a US school: 0 (230 fatal shootings/180 school days)
Even if you account for the US being 30x bigger that’s still a lot more dead kids when you don’t restrict access to guns.
Let’s play a hypothetical game:
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You get a wooden broomstick with paint on it, and I get a paintball gun.
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Let’s see how many people we can mark with paint before unarmed people take us down in the exact same amount of time.
There’s something called lethal effectiveness. But if you disagree, then I guess we should inform our military that knives would be a perfectly effective substitute over rifles and save taxpayers greats amount of money.
Put another way: This actually proves targeting certain kinds of weapons IS effective, because they substituted for a lesser-effective weapon. If the person had a rifle like Holmes or Lanza or the countless others with many magazines or drums of ammunition, these people wouldn’t be “injured”; many would be dead. Just like the recent Idaho shooting.
In that instance, the lunatic walks up to a guy’s window with a handgun and shoots him point-blank through his window. Can’t do that with a sword so easily, can you? His locked door and window glass would’ve sufficiently protected him.
We need to identify and intervene before any attack happens.
We can, and should, do both simultaneously.
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