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A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others.

Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, who police identified as a 30-year-old man.

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“It’s something you don’t expect to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.”

He continued, “It was like a war zone… There were bodies all over the ground.”

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like how they've so far completely failed to defend or even address what they said about "fists" because they know it's a heap of bullshit. They apparently want us to think that the everyman on the street is Kiryu Kazuma who can roll up to a crowded festival and kill ~~nine~~ eleven people with their bare fists then injure ~~like ten~~ twenty more before being restrained and brought into custody.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you’ve made my argument for me by showing that the tool used in an assault is not relevant, and by focusing on the tool you solve nothing.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... What? I'm taking the piss out of your argument that the tool isn't relevant. You tried to bring "fists" into this as a comparison. Unless you're willing to say that I could go out right now into a crowd of people and kill eleven and wound twenty with my bare hands like I'm the Internet badass from the Navy SEALs copypasta, then you're absolutely full of it and are just running with the recently popularized bad-faith argumentation strategy of "never play defense".

Do you or do you not believe that it is possible for me to go out into a crowd of people of some description unarmed, then kill eleven people and wound twenty with – your words, not mine – "my fists". Are you actually that deluded, or were you mistaken in comparing a car attack to a fist attack?

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -1 points 1 day ago

My opinion of fists is totally irrelevant as it is used to represent a tool of any kind. Thank you for so clearly pointing out that the tool doesn’t matter at all.

I will note, that if the design of the tool is to be used solely as a weapon (such as a gun) then it does matter, but only emphasizes the issue of mental health.

To answer your direct question, even though we have established the tool is irrelevant… I do not have any way to predict your performance in an unarmed fight. If I had to make an uneducated guess: I imagine you lack the physical ability to do much more than type as you are.