• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      And before anyone says it, the only person to menace me with a knife has been my partner… and I think she was joking.

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        6 months ago

        menace me with a knife

        Regardless, a knife isn’t any risk to innocent people across the street from the intended victim. A gun on the other hand…

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          6 months ago

          How many knives can a disaffected teen carry/throw per minute?

          I wouldn’t seek to downplay how much damage a sufficiently motivated individual with a knife can do in a short space of time, but it is certainly orders of magnitude lower than a firearm in most cases.

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        6 months ago

        That’s for her to know :)

        I do feel like the media coverage of knife crime is overblown. The violent crime rate here is pretty low, and yet you have to be an adult to buy a seam ripper. Knife sales aren’t the reason for rises in violent crime, inequality is. Hopefully we can begin to address that with a new administration.

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          6 months ago

          I didn’t call her bluff, so who’s to say.

          It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.