[Oatka]

A decent knife in the hands of someone with some b@ll$ would have done a lot to curtail the killing. But, in Paris, you'd be hard pressed to find a decent knife or anyone with some guts.

Underlines mine. As another poster here reported, the pre-dead cowered and covered their heads, waiting to be shot. The message of the classic "Resist, the odds don't matter any more" poster applies here. Better to be shot while strangling the shooter with your bare hands than die cringing in a puddle of your own urine.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Better to be shot while strangling the shooter with your bare hands than die cringing in a puddle of your own urine.

Exactamundo. Many simply do not understand that. Or worse...grasp it but don't "believe" in it.