Everyone is ignoring the fact that the madman in California killed his first three victims with a knife. What type of knife and how he pulled off such a feat is not talked about but it does make me wonder.
Has the knife culture finally arrived? Don't get me wrong. I don't say that in some form of celebration but more to the idea that we've been hearing warnings that illegal immigrants from S. America and Africa would bring with them cultural norms of using large (talking about machete sized) knives as the preferred weapons of choice when committing violence.
If what I fear is true, that it has arrived, then it will take a rethink in defensive tactics.
Knife fights are brutal.
The assailants like to get close. The attacks are fast, with the attackers wanting to stab a victim as many times as possible before they can even react. Think of it more like a prison or street fight and less (much less) a gun fight.
Distance is your friend in such an attack as is awareness. How you could even begin to clock an assailant in a crowded area or in a big city is beyond me. I really don't think you could. Physical fitness becomes paramount. And if your assailant is bigger and stronger than you are then consider yourself up a serious creek.
I'll research this a bit more but this is an alarming development. Check out the pics below and remember. The British Army musician was hacked to pieces in broad daylight and didn't even have time to resist. The attackers used kitchen implements. Is this coming to America?
Sidenote: The attackers in the pics below are from Nigeria. I wonder if they had ties to the terrorist organization that kidnapped those girls?
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ReplyDeleteYes it has arrived. Here in the UK we have lots of Africans and East Europeans who like their knives, Luckily they seem to spend most of their time hacking each other to pieces; often in turf wars over criminal resources. Stab vests have been police issue here now for well over a decade. I grew up with coppers wearing serge jackets and proper trousers, perhaps wooly pullovers, and now it is all stab vests and combat trousers. The only piece of old kit that has survived is the helmet. (I can buy anti-stab vests freely. Many doormen wear them. )
ReplyDeleteAs you know Sol there is a lot of crap spoken about knives vs handguns. I can hit crap with handgun. And yet if I wanted to stab somebody I wouldn't miss. I wouldn't run out of ammo. Note how many knife attacks are described as frenzied. The spread of damage can make first aid difficult. I am actually surprised the cruciform knife isn't more common a la Mosin bayonet because of the damage it causes and the difficulty it presents to medics.
Carrying knives I would say isn't that deeply ingrained within the culture of the white underclass; the don't appear to be too many instances of stabbings given the size of the population. That is to say it happens but not to the same extent as it does within some areas of our population. Further we have a lot of legislation to do with knives and what can be carried on your person day to day. No locking blades. No blades over a certain length. No self deployers. You can have them at home or as my dad does in your tool box, but if you were caught with one of Spyderco's finest selfdeployers with 5 inch blade in public you are in deep doo-doo. Then again we aren't allowed to have all sorts of stuff. Telescopic batons are a no-no too.
Steve and as the photo shows those idiotic policies work so well. But I guess the politicks are satisfied because it restrict the type they fear the common upstanding citizen that loves his nation and would be willing to die for it, or the one on the ground bleeding out in this case.
ReplyDeleteI am still saddened no one else stepped up while this soldier was butchered in the street by 3rd world dredge.
I wonder what happened to that son of a bitch murderer in the picture?
ReplyDeletei've been wondering about that. the UK has rather lax laws when it comes to taking a life so i imagine he'll do a few years in prison and then be pardoned. long story short. he'll get a chance to do it again before he dies.
DeleteSounds about right.
DeleteEven if he gets life, he will most likely be out on "good behavior", or some idiot bleeding heart judges orders in a decade or so.
Even then, he gets free television and other electronics in prison for free.