The only way to combat this is the right to carry swords, it's the best equaliser against knife crime given the range and power multiplier of such a tool
(Plus good luck with guns but swords thanks to heraldry and coats of arms might be a more go to first pick, then we can go guns on the tech tree)
There are some civ games like Civ 5 which have weird tech "loophole" of sorts that mean you can make machine guns while skipping earlier techs for rifles.
I once played a game of Civ where I tried to see how much primitive tech I could skip while researching things that conceptually would require them. If memory serves, my civilization discovered electricity before the wheel.
The only way to combat this is the right to carry swords, it's the best equaliser against knife crime given the range and power multiplier of such a tool
(Plus good luck with guns but swords thanks to heraldry and coats of arms might be a more go to first pick, then we can go guns on the tech tree)
I believe the fashionable response in London lately is to use the tusk of a narwhal.
There are some civ games like Civ 5 which have weird tech "loophole" of sorts that mean you can make machine guns while skipping earlier techs for rifles.
I once played a game of Civ where I tried to see how much primitive tech I could skip while researching things that conceptually would require them. If memory serves, my civilization discovered electricity before the wheel.