Current Events > $50m, or all mass shootings become mass stabbings.

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Anyone who would otherwise have gone to a location with a gun and started shooting everyone (or a specific subset of everyone, like targeting a particular race), they will instead go with a knife and start stabbing the same general kind of targets. It could play out completely differently in terms of who is or isn't a victim, how many, etc. Given that it's a stabbing rather than shooting, it is very likely to have less victims and less severe injuries.

Basically, the timelines first diverge with the person taking a knife instead (but otherwise remain the same), then once the attack starts, it's a totally seperate timeline.

Why'd you delete the first one

Does this last forever or just during my lifetime?

It's permanent.

Needs more details.

Is it a one for one... Mass shooting death victims just become stabbing death victims, instead? Do they only get stabbed once for every time they were shot? How does it translate?

Anyone who would otherwise have gone to a location with a gun and started shooting everyone (or a specific subset of everyone, like targeting a particular race), they will instead go with a knife and start stabbing the same general kind of targets. It could play out completely differently in terms of who is or isn't a victim, how many, etc. Given that it's a stabbing rather than shooting, it is very likely to have less victims and less severe injuries.

Basically, the timelines first diverge with the person taking a knife instead (but otherwise remain the same), then once the attack starts, it's a totally seperate timeline.

Basically, the timelines first diverge with the person taking a knife instead (but otherwise remain the same), then once the attack starts, it's a totally separate timeline.

Money because mass stabbings are just as horrific

Money because mass stabbings are just as horrific

Money because mass stabbings are just as horrific

I'm glad you were logical with it. I hate when people think you can change one significant detail and an alternate reality would be exactly the same just mins that detail.

Like, the Las Vegas Shooter wouldn't have been able to get that body count if he was stabbing people and it would be completely nonsensical to say he would have because that's our current timeline's body count.

Please post literally any mass stabbing that has been as horrific as the common mass shooting.

I get where he's coming from in the sense that for someone actually present at one (let alone surviving victims), or afraid of encountering one, it would be comparably traumatic. However, there would still be a huge difference in loss of life / number and severity of physical injuries, just not as much difference in mental health impact.

To be fair, I do think there would be a potential difference in mental health impact, since a mass stabber would be taken down by people much more quickly than a mass shooter would, and thus the range of people impacted, even if only mentally and not physically, would be lower.

Surprised mods haven't gotten this topic yet. Lol

Surprised mods haven't gotten this topic yet. Lol

They really REALLY aren't.

Actually, it depends on the knife. A pocket knife would be much less horrible, yes. But how about a machete or a sword? If you get limbs / heads amputated its no longer less horrific.

I know the scenario is to exchange shootings for stabbings, but that isn't how it would play out in real life.

I know the scenario is to exchange shootings for stabbings, but that isn't how it would play out in real life.

Every mass shooter would not have just picked up a knife instead. Guns allow for distance mass killing with very little effort. Knives require getting up close, and a lot of physical effort.

A knife just doesn't fuel the deranged power fantasies of the weak in the way that a gun does. You can't stalk around like a character in an action movie, picking off your targets and terrorizing. You're basically in a physical fight the whole time.

Actually, it depends on the knife. A pocket knife would be much less horrible, yes. But how about a machete or a sword? If you get limbs / heads amputated its no longer less horrific.