Anyone else alittle paranoid of knife attacks?

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#62

Damn, confused information, bad example (well, for what he did he actually belongs to prison). I’ve discussed these topics with many people including policemen and self-defense instructors and from what I’ve learned, in most cases even a brutal defense is OK. Problem is, that understanding of the law can vary a bit, so it is important to have a solid lawyer. Things are generally better in bigger cities, as the system is better accustomed to violent crimes and defense against it.
It is ok to have a opinion in this matter, even experts do have different ones sometimes. Anyways this is far from the topic so I suggest not to expand this too much further…

Knife attacks are f**king terrifying :smiley:

#63

Try googling videos for a moment, people are usually so shocked they don’t defend themselves at all let alone help anyone else. Totally unprepared, that’s a shame, it should be taught in schools (how to get from critical situations like car crash or terrorist attack etc would be great subject).

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#64

i have heard and seen the phenomenon ware the chances people intervene decreases the more people ther are around. the best chance of getting help is actually if thers only 1 person around to help. they think this has somting do do whit people thinking some other will help so i dont need to. but if all think the same no one actually helps.
never been attack whit knife personaly. but when it comes to somwan trying to kill you alot of survival instinct kicks in. people whit no training has done heroic things in this kinds of sitiation. we hear alot of this kind of storys whit the brevik case on utøya in norway

#65

Im sorry if i went a little over board but your comment came off as very anti American and ive been getting crap online from a lot of Europeans lately and its been getting on my nerves. In the united states where guns are banned there is a huge rise in crime. In places where there are very few gun laws in place we actually have a lot less crime. Detroit Michigan and Washington D.C have the highest murder rates in our country and guns are banned there. Again you cannot compare the crime rate of the United States with the crime rate of Denmark. We have 300 million people you have 5 million. Places with a larger population tend to have a higher crime rate this is a fact. Most of Americans are not the trigger happy murderers the rest of the world paints us as. Often just a gun being pulled could easily stop a crime with no people being injured or killed. Also if you were a murderer or other criminal would you want to be in an area where a lot of people have guns or an area were no one has guns and are easy targets? We are also right next door to the country with one of the highest murder rates in the world Mexico. Mexico has very strict gun control laws and they don’t seem to be working for them. Most people who own guns in America grow up around them and know how to handle them safely. Most people who own guns also take hunter/gun safety courses.

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#66

Well school safety drills are absolutely idiotic where i live. You turn out the lights and sit in the corner of the classroom.

#67

I’ve seen a video where a man takes on six cops with a knife and manages to kill one and wound the rest. Defending against some maniac with a knife who is probably on some kind of drug wouldn’t be that simple. A gun also needs reloading which would give time for people to overwhelm the shooter a gun that’s not loaded is worthless.

#68

It would take more than you think a man in my home state of Colorado walked into a move theatre and opened fire and only managed to kill 12 out of 90 people in a packed movie theatre.

#69

I am not sure if a gun ban has anything to do with that :wink:

#70

Adam Lanza was mentally insane guy who was able to go undetected for years. His mother was not a responsible gun owner she kept the gun and ammunition in easy reach of a insane person. If she would have had her guns in a safe like most Americans do sandy hook would have never happened. People want to ban ar15s in America but they are used in only 2% of shootings. There was an assault weapon ban in place in America when Columbine and the north Hollywood shout out happened. Both of those crimes were used with illegal assault weapons because you couldn’t buy them at the time.

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#71

Gangs are also a problem in those cities but you have to follow the patterns that places where guns are heavily regulated and or banned in America is where the most crime happens. The police response time is horrible usually around 10-20 minutes.

#72

Our media is so one sided and very anti gun. They never report on the thousands of people saved by guns each year. The media only tells story’s of when guns are used to murder someone. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=stories%20of%20guns%20saving%20lives i suggest everyone reads this.

#73

don’t worry about it.
There are areas where I do shake my head. (but since they are not gun related they are sort of off topic. but do naturally effect things like crime rates. Better safety = less crime)

The “stand your ground laws” do not make much sense for me… but I do believe that only exist in some states?

At is core I think US citizens distrust the government and prefer at system where they have the legal right solve problems them self. Or the freedom to do so…
And since the US was founded by fighting a war against the king it is natural that there is this distrust.
This also explain the “right to bear arms” debate. This idea is logical in the US.
But would make very little sense here i Denmark.

Here in Denmark the King gave the people a Constitution. And by early 20th century we had universal suffrage and the social democrats in power. And that resulted in our welfare state. The fact that I don’t have to worry about a lot of things that an (poor) US citizen have to… give me freedom to live my life as I want.

So two rather different ideas about freedom.

well, back to guns.
I like the fact that I live in a place where that is the case. And in the perfect world that was the face for everyone ells…

But if I lived in Detroit I would like to be able to carry a gun also.

So I basically think it is a rather hard question. Banning all guns in the US would only make things worse.
(and very likely be unconstitutional) But I don’t think more guns is the solution.

#74

You’re right about distrust of our government because they lie to us and pull crap that scares everyone. Violent crime has gone down in the U.S over the last 50 years while gun owner ship was gone up.

#75

you are saying more weapon to the people reduses crimes? in reality i have no problems whit people having guns. the problem comes when the wrong people get it. and its to easy for a person whit psychological problems to get guns. same as death sentens. its ok on the people that deserves it but as we all know. many have died innocent in your contry. and its hard to find out if somwan is fit or not to own a gun. so i think its betther to just let the polise and hunters use guns

#76

and the gun saves lifes thing. i dont belive it. you cant get peace by going to war. war only brings more war. you cant figth fire whit fire.

#77

Yes statisticly areas with more guns in the hands of citizens have much lower crime than areas with strict gun control you can get these statistics from the FBI go to their website.

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#78

tell that to the ww2 vets.

and to answer directly, of course gun saves lives. there are tons of self defense cases involving weapons, most of them just don’t make it to the gun statistics because they don’t involve death, they just involve someone being either frightened off. makes for some interesting statistical manipulation.

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#79

true. the past few shootings have all been in areas with high gun regulation. i think it’s particularly interesting that the latest high profile shooting involved a killer being stopped by a security guard in the only place in that city where the security guard could possibly be armed.

just a bit of irony

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#80

Yeah and that one was never really reported on any of the major news channels our media is full of censorship and propaganda. Also people should remember the last time government tried to take peoples guns the revolutionary war started. It might have never had started if the British didn’t march on Lexington and Concord to seize weapons and ammo being held by colonists.

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#81

its only because people defending themselves with firearms is so common its not even news anymore.

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