19 dead, 20 injured in knife attack outside Tokyo

[Thumpalumpacus]

[...]Armed citizens can protect themselves with a gun from a superior force.

Really? So why the f*ck don't they? How come we don't hear about mass shootings in US, where the shooter is stopped by an armed civilian, rather than by the police, or suicide? Is it because Yanks can't use guns? Or is it because what you're saying is utter bullsh*t?

Mass-murders usually happen in places where guns aren't allowed: school and work. I'm not saying that's the only reason these murderers aren't stopped, but surely the absence of opposing firepower could help explain the lack of opposing these killers. I think only the Giffords shooting saw someone with a gun ready to oppose the shooter -- but because of the circumstances, he realized he couldn't get a clean shot and withheld fire for fear of adding more casualties. No doubt a wise choice.

[Edwardo Piet]

GC is annoying me more than anyone else on AF right now. He's such an arrogant cock.

[Pat Mustard]

Armed citizens can protect themselves with a gun from a superior force.

GC

So if I had an ICBM and you a .22 then you'd have the advantage? The only thing that easy availability guns do for you* is that it makes it easier for you to kill your loved ones.

*Not using the specific you here, for obvious reasons.