“To put it another way, Virginia Tech doesn’t happen if Seung-Hui Cho is brandishing a sword.”
It also don’t happen if someone pulls out their Glock and caps your sorry ass.
During the time I was a prosecutor, I prosecuted several murder cases. The majority were killed by stabbing/slashing/knife wounds, not by firearms. In fact, in one of the most grisly of them, three young people were tied with duct tape and their throats slit...after one of the victims had been talked into surrendering his pistol.
You’re not really dead if you get hacked up with a sword.
Nick Burgh told me so.