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"The street law of no snitching appeared to be in full effect."

What "street law" is that?
If I see something happening on the street I'd have no problem reporting it and providing descriptions.
So what "street law" am I breaking?
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@1 LOL
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Chuck,
Why are your people always cutting or shooting each other?
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I'm a little surprised that Charles didn't blame the Cadillac DeVille.
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intervening in any public dispute between couples always seems to turn the danger onto the good Samaritan.

better to encourage them to kill each other and save humanity from their offspring.
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Good Afternoon Charles,
Indeed, you're correct. It would have been far worse had a firearm been involved. Alas, this "bad situation" isn't over from your account. A gun may yet appear in another scenario. Still, what deeply troubles me is the instigation. Bad temper almost always ends up in a bad situation. The recipient or somone else gets hurt or worse. Ridiculous and sad.
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University of Calgary man murdered 5 people with a knife. Who knew you could kill someone with a knife? Not the Stranger's token boy.
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I take it that Shutterstock didn't have a small folding knife?
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Uhhh, Charles... the attacker was just sloppy... three inches lower and the carotid artery cut would have bled her out before the fire dept got there. Just luck that she survived... Nothing to do with respective lethality... Ignorance on the part of the knife wielder... Ignorant people also miss the target with guns.... I think clubs and machetes have killed more globally in the last several decades than guns.... The intent, not the tool is most important, I think..;-S
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@1: So you're ADMITTING that you'd just report it to the police instead of jumping in with your gun and subduing the perp? Some "good guy with a gun" you are.
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I had to train in both defensive firearms and basic knife defense. Neither are my thing and I didn't enjoy either. But knife training was freaky.

You think gun people are kooky, hang out with people into knives. The Filipino martial arts guys were pretty cool generally, but the Sayoc Kali knife guys? They were like comic book villains. Bristling with knives 24/7. Those are some scary motherfuckers.

The first thing the FMA knife instructors would do was to show you the Big Book of Knife Wounds - a massive album of ER and EMT photos of gory stab and slash wounds. Just so you knew what you were in for. There were hundreds. The interesting thing was every person survived.

According to the cops in the program stabbings were many multiple wounds and the attackers MEANT it. It's more like: "STAB. STAB. STABSTABSSTABSTABITTYSTAB."

With guns? Idiots pull a gun thinking just the gun itself is the big statement. And it goes off. It's like: "BANG! Oh. Shit!" The fatality of which depends on calibre and would locations, etc.

People rarely get accidentally stabbed. Knives don't just go off. Guy comes at with a butcher knife? He wants to kill you.

Taking all that into account though, knife wounds are statistically more survivable than gun shot wounds. But the whole concept is terrifying.

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That's a very colorful write-up. I could almost hear the shouts of "disrespect" ringing out while reading about this incident.

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