Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others
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Guys come on, a fucking kid was murdered. At least try to be respectful.
I don't want to undercut the tragedy of lost life here, but I pity people doing HEMA fencing or similar hobbies in UK.
As I understand it the government was already stupid about some anti-sword/knife laws and this won't help...
Swords are already pretty regulated in the UK last I learnt about this topic. Matt Easton from Schola Gladiatoria has a video on it somewhere
Yeah, Matt Easton is why I know about it. My point being, if they were paranoid about swords before, what will they do now
True
They got the attacker alive at least. He's in for a bad time.
Good.
"King Charles III" still sounds so weird to me. The last story I ran across with his name in it was about either Ireland or Scotland, I can't remember which, and it took me longer than I care to admit to realize it wasn't some sly Jacobite comment.
What the fuck man.
I thought cops wearing chainmail was ridiculous, but maybe London police should have something like this:
It's about as ridiculous as wearing plate carriers against firearms.
A sword, Mal!
How weird is that?
I haven't thought of this in ages, thank you.
Oh look! Another mass shooting in Amer-
Removed, civility.
Wooosh!
This many victims they still call a 'mass' shooting over here. It gets more clicks and you all buy it because everyone loves a chance to point out what they do better than the big kid in the room.
What kind of sword?
Samurai.
He got it wrong. Kill the father, wound the boy. Then he grows up and hunts you down with a catch phrase he's prepared for the occasion.
Just ensure you have an odd number of fingers before initiating.
Holds up five fingers
But I already do!
See! SWORDS also kill people! Even though he could have killed that entire boys family plus a couple more with a gun, I DON'T CARE! PRO LIFE!
Please keep your Murica shit in Murica. Thank you.
I feel like he was being sarcastic
Irrelevant.
is it, though?
It's stupid Murica shit either way, so yes, it is.
I'd venture a guess the majority of users here are American and just trying to solve our stupid American shit.
If you don't care, then just ignore. If you do care about reducing deaths in America, then let these conversations play out.
Posting some polemic kneejerk reactionary comments about Murica in threads that are not about America is not going to reduce deaths in America. It only derails the actual topic with Americentrism that other people will just perceive as rude.
"Thoughts and prayers" seems to have crossed the pond. I genuinely hope they are more useful over there, because they are absolutely worthless here and usually indicate that nothing of consequence will be done about the matter.
Hmm almost as if, swords, like guns, are weapons made to kill things.
I'd rather be shot than killed with a sword, tbh.
Either everyone got whooshed by your sarcasm and underlying point or there are more gun lubbers on here than I thought.
I don't think so, the comment is just a little tone deaf to the tragedy.
If anyone directly subjected to the tragedy were here I might be inclined to agree, but this isn't the funeral. So personally I think it's a great time to connect the dots between this event, and what could've been had the lethal effectiveness of the shooter been elevated. With the goal in mind to mitigate future tragedies, I see nothing tone deaf about it. I see it as very productive.
I mean really, what else are we supposed to talk about in these comments...?
Nah, talking about it is fine. It's how they did it. I don't give a shit either way, I was just making an observation.
What was wrong with how they said it?