# Karate Massacre **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934 "2017-10-04T10:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/41 "2017-10-06T18:27:57Z")
I seem to recall in the landmark case of "[Han’s Island Operating Corporation, LLC. v. Lee"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrmK9esHpc) the main difference between being a master of karate and a gun is that it takes years and years of training to reach a level where you could k-chop dozens of people to death. Anyone can pick up a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/42 "2017-10-06T18:39:15Z")
What’s up with the mook who sees Bruce Lee stomp a couple dozen mooks into the ground, who loses his nunchucks to Bruce Lee, watches stunned as Bruce Lee whips them around like a, you know, master, decide to pick up a stick and charge Bruce Lee? What did he expect was going to happen? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/43 "2017-10-06T19:00:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Right, so you’re not even going to _consult_ the Squid Lords? Pfft. Typical. The Squid Lords don’t have original jurisdiction here in America. They’re part of the appellate system. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/44 "2017-10-06T21:40:48Z")
> [@Delicious](#): > > This is a sensible short-term solution, but long-term, what do we do when a taekwondo master kicks 60 people’s heads off? Well, we’ll have to ban heads, then. Now I know some bleeding heart libtard is going to tell me we should ban feet, but there’s (on average) almost twice as many feet in the world as there are heads, so it’s clearly much more feasible to ban the heads. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/45 "2017-10-07T00:15:59Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Nothing needs to be done - karate masters already have to register their hands as lethal weapons. > > Regards, > Shodan I do not and have not. I even tried. I went down to San Diego PD off 10th avenue and volunteered and asked for the form. They laughed me out of the lobby! * * * You guys are really going about this the wrong way, anyway. To avoid mass massacres, we must ban crowd events – concerts, movies, county fairs, graduation ceremonies… –G! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934/46 "2017-10-07T01:13:48Z")
Kidding aside, like I pointed out in another thread, if someone was determined enough, they could legally buy aluminum and steel metal blanks and just cut a new machine-gun from scratch. With the CNC machines that makerspaces have, it wouldn’t even be that hard - someone would just need the files containing where to cut, and a minimal amount of knowhow to make each part. But this would take weeks to months and a lot of effort. So fewer people would do it. There is a book on Amazon that has detailed instructions as to how to make a basic machinegun using basic machine tools. If it were possible to train one’s karate chop over 10 years to be a weapon that can instantly and reliably kill people, it still would be a lot easier to pick up a gun and do the same thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karate-massacre/797934.md?page=2)