• tourist@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Were all the victims alone with nobody close to stop the suspect?

    Wikipedia says the perpetrator arrived at 3:20 pm and police only started getting phone calls closer to 4pm, so that seems to be the case.

    Apparently a number of people in the shopping centre were unaware anything was happening until police shot the guy.

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      8 months ago

      That makes a lot more sense then. This is no laughing matter but for the lack of a better example he was basically on a stealth mission then, quickly and silently killing people to maximise the damage he could do.

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        8 months ago

        Except he doesn’t need to do that. Knives are dangerous. It’s not like you can “rush the guy” with three people and “just take his knife”. This isn’t a movie. There are tests on youtube of martial artists trying to take a “knife” from a kid (knife = marker, the martial artists wears a shirt). They always end the same way - a 12yo stabbing the biggest dude you have seen to “death”. There are always cut tendons that disable arms, legs. There are always stabs to the kidney, to the liver, or going through important arteries. Knives are fucking scary dude.

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          8 months ago

          Oh yeah, i didnt say he would have been stopped without harming the person but in a big crowd of people you will find someone who is willing to sacrifice themselves much faster than 40 minutes.