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doleyesterday at 8:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Killers are going to kill. Guns don't democratize it, just makes it easier. Maybe at best YOU could kill one or two:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/16/china/china-stabbing-yixing-c... (8 stabbed to death) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_Schoo... (1 killed, 24 injured)

So they should stop you from 3d-printing knives too.


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nitwit005yesterday at 10:02 PM

Successful mass murders with a knife are fairly rare. Killing people that way is physically difficult, and it's relatively easy to just tackle you.

Traditionally, arson was the means of mass killing, as it didn't have either problem. That's gotten much more difficult due to fire safety.