r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/BriefSpecial420 Jul 16 '26

Great joke. In crowded places knives are extremely dangerous. Not to mention home-made incendiaries. The thing is that the titles in media wouldn't sell as well as the ones with guns.

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u/AccidentalMechanic Jul 16 '26

Do you need a dictionary? Or should I just explain to you what the word "less" means?

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u/BriefSpecial420 Jul 16 '26

Incorrect assumption.

The only advntage of a gun is range, what makes little sense in an environment like crowded building. In a crowd, an attacker with a knife may stab multiple people while even being hard to spot. Furthermore, single knife cut is more likely to end up with you bleeding out than a single stab/cut.

Knife is just a tool, a weapon. Like any other, it's effectiveness depends on a person who carries it. My guess would be that the pop culture is full of images of all kinds of shootings, better or worse, so messed up people get some idea of how to use a gun in such setting. At the same time, knife attacks get rarely shown, not to mention the less theatrical but more effective ones. As a result (luckily) fewer people think about knives when planning to commit some massacre. 

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u/AccidentalMechanic Jul 16 '26

Man, you almost sound smart.