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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by tzahola on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:12AM (#15977687)
As if you couldn’t rob someone with a knife.
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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by kelnos on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @12:21AM (#16007230)
What's your point? I was specifically responding to a claim about gun-related robberies.

Knives are also short-range weapons and are arguably a ton less dangerous than guns. If someone brandishes a knife at me and doesn't have an accomplice to surround me, I've got pretty good odds if I simply turn around and run. The equation changes if they have a gun.

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