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[url=http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/33-dead-130-injured-china-knife-wielding-spree-n41966]A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and injuring more than 130 others in what Chinese officials called a terrorist strike, the official Xinhua News Agency said.[/url]
So stop saying banning guns will end violence like that.
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_School_stabbing]On the 14th of December, 2012, a man walked into a primary school armed with a weapon and unfortunately managed to claim 24 victims.[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting]On the 14th of December, 2012, a man walked into a primary school armed with a weapon and unfortunately managed to claim 29 victims.[/url] In the first case, none of them were killed, but in the second, 27. In the first case, the attacker was armed with a knife, but in the second, a firearm. Are we noticing something here? Nobody is denying that violence can still occur if firearms were removed from the general populace. [b][u]Nobody[/u][/b], like, at all. However, what should be painfully obvious to anybody with a modicum of intelligence is the effectiveness of the weapon. That being, [b]a firearm is a far more effective killing instrument than a knife[/b]. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_TZ84hmEA]tl;dr[/url]