On a side note, watching that Robocop scene as a kid without any sense of mortality or much of real life, I barely flinched. On subsequent rewatches in adult life, it's an increasingly harder and harder scene to watch.
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On a side note, watching that Robocop scene as a kid without any sense of mortality or much of real life, I barely flinched. On subsequent rewatches in adult life, it's an increasingly harder and harder scene to watch.
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Yeah you do. Many islamic terror attacks in this country, china and Europe were mass stabbings.
The death toll compared to guns is tiny.
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Less efficient killing method.
So the person with a gun is inherently more dangerous as I said.
I'm glad you said that. Me too. I still just get excited at the heart-being-ripped-out on Terminator though. Humans are odd.
The Robocop scene is raw human sadism though, you put yourself in Murphy's shoes, you know no help is coming, these are hardened criminals with no morality who relish suffering. Whereas Terminator is doing what it's programmed to.
Very true. Did we ever figure out the three shells though?
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I never disputed that.
You can still run away from a knife (as anyone should), running away from a bullet... not so much.
Clearly you haven't played enough FPS.
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Maybe not quite as gotcha as you'd think
. I went shooting in the US a few years back, and there's a surprising number of pistols that don't have safeties. They typically have heavier triggers and drop protection, so they shouldn't go off by accident.They're largely pitched at law enforcement, but apparently lots of people like them for home defence or concealed carry.
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IIRC that style of "safety" along with a popular style of "quick draw" holster have a very, very bad habit of resulting in the gun going off as it's being drawn (regardless of reason), apparently the holster has a tendency to catch on the trigger during the draw resulting in it firing. From what I remember reading about it, it tends to be worse amongst the idiots who don't train with both the gun and holster, but even those people that do train get caught out because it's such an easy thing to do.Maybe not quite as gotcha as you'd think
They're largely pitched at law enforcement, but apparently lots of people like them for home defence or concealed carry.
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And how often does this happen in the UK?
One of the results of things like the UK gun laws is that pretty much any use of even an imitation gun in a crime results on the police throwing resources at it.
It's also interesting that the circumstances around it are still being investigated, because that sort of crime is so unusual that I suspect there is a lot more than random guy goes up to someone's door with a shotgun in broad daylight.
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