From two paces anyone with a knife in their hand and the determination to use it will generally manage to stab anyone with a handgun unless you hit them with a headshot or sever the spine. In a confined space there's not much difference in effectiveness.
Most decent knives will also go through kevlar body armor.
That tends to be the case in the UK
-- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show
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And worst of all far too many of them vote.
I used to work with a fella that had a Ruger 44 Magnum. He said it cost less to shoot than any of his other guns. 6 rounds and he was done with it for another year!
John Ferrell W8CCW
Give a beginner one of those and it will teach them all the features of being totally gunshy.
-- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show
I suppose he never amortized the total cost of ownership over the number of rounds fired. ;-)
AIUI, since mandatory immobilizers in cars in the UK, there has been an upsurge in home invasions demanding car keys with threat of (or actual) violence.
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"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference
is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more
durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
(Stephen Leacock)
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