Florida mental health agency examined Cruz in 2016, didnt hospitalize him

[mr_lebowski]

16. This, 1000X ... exactly correct ...

Person must also be reasonably physically fit to inflict damage on multiple people, and must be ready to 'stomach' the blood all over themselves and their hands (which also will make gripping the weapon more difficult), AND the sensation of blade sinking into skin and hitting bone and looking a terrified victim right in the eye AND who is fighting back for their lives.

It's SOOOO friggin' different killing people with knives vs guns it's not even funny. Not to mention there's not big 'knife culture', no National Knife Association, nobody goes to the KNIFE range and practices sinking blades into targets (or maybe a tiny group of people do I dunno but it's nothing like gun culture in size or scope).

And nobody looks at a simple knife or blade and has illusions of massive POWER to DESTROY lives en masse. Also, nobody grows up in households where the parents fetish-ize knives and their 'power' ... and their 'right to have them' ... like they do with guns.

They also don't spend upwards of a $1000 to procure knifes or even swords unless they're like REALLY nice or historical pieces. There's no 'allure' to 'use them' like their can be with an expensive firearm, that can get into the head of a distraught/damaged soul like Cruz, no 'siren song' if you will.

Frankly it's just stupid to even try to compare the two things, quite honestly.