Not true, one can easily kill more then 1 person per min with a
melee weapon if he knows what he's doing and trains for it.
We just had the recent case of Tomohiro Kato which killed 7
people mainly with his knife in a very short period of time.
As opposed to random frenzied stabbing, if the person goes for
vital targets like the neck and slit the throat or stabs the side
of the neck, a lot of people will die if they don't know how to
defend themselves. All it takes is one slash and the person's fate
is sealed, he'll just bleed out.
Given sufficent acess to a large number of victims (like trapped
in a pre locked classroom with nowhere to run), the element of
surprise and proper, premeditated training and knowledge of
anatomy, a maniac on a slashing/stabbing spree can cause a lot of
damage. The best option then would be to fight back and swarm the
attacker, and not to cower in fear and run away.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CN47xlhEboE
Notice how the dude just finishes off the camels with one swipe
and just moves on, he does not wait for them to fall knowing that
they are already dead when their throats are slit.
you are saying that fast kill can happen if the assailant is
trained in some ways.
in a classroom scenario. the most body count will be around 3
before anyone can run out of the class.at this point, some "heroes"
would be confronting the assailant.
unless the assailant is pretty accurate with his wep, the body
count will be pretty low. of cuz all this are just conjecture. we
just need some specimens to run this experiment to gain more
informative data.
