• Gljvf@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    I may not be as familiar as you are it seems. However I have multiple young children in my family amd some friends have children ranging from a few months old to teenagers. I certainly know how strong a five year old can be.

    You should know that knives and bayonets have been used effectively in militaries the world over for over a century

    But you know that and just do t want to admit it.

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      11 months ago

      You’re vastly overestimating how strong a six year old is, the effective range of a six year old with a knife and underestimating how much faster and stronger an able bodied grown adult is in comparison and how relatively easy it is to defend yourself from a six year old you’re literally facing down when they’re limited by their own strength.

      The bayonet is a weapon of last resort, the US army haven’t trained with them in more than a decade and last fought a bayonet battle 70 years ago, there’s not a professional army on the planet who’s primary weapon is an edged blade. More bad faith horse shit.

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        11 months ago

        6 year olds are first graders and typically have very close interactions with teachers. It doesn’t take much for a 6 year old to stab through a person’s hand and into a person’s chest. Also my point is more thay the child could have taken a knife from thier parent as easily as a gun and then went on to stab the teacher. In both instances the result could end in death.

        Knives are responsible for a lot of deaths and there have been mass stabbings in the news recently