>>>>>>Too many people are dying because it's easy to get guns.
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>>>>>People are being killed because the killers can get guns? If the guns were not around wouldn't the killers use something else?
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>>>>Not in the particular case that started all this.
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>>>They could have had knives. Or a club. Or a dartgun.
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>>Against his machete? That would have been interesting.
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>3 on 1? Plus, knives are used for stabbing while a machete uses a swinging type action, which means it is a slower attack.

Yeah but he was an athlete, and I have a feeling that if the three of them had seen him coming at them with a machete, they would not have organised themselves into an orchestrated attack. They would probably have run like hell. Of course, that assumes they have a functioning brain cell between them.