Maybe have another area where enemies are very resilent to all bladed weapons so the player must experiement with different blunt weapons.

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According to FBI statistics, 352 people were killed last year with rifles, 424 with shotguns, 1, 836 with knives or cutting instruments, 623 with hammers or other blunt objects, 815 with personal weapons defined as hands, feet and fists, and 122 by strangulation.

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Russian leaders cannot bring themselves to believe repeated Western assurances that plans to defend Europe against nuclear missiles are aimed solely at irrational states with a handful of weapons (diplomat-speak for Iran), and are not meant to blunt the effectiveness of Russia's array of nuclear weapons.

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Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, so Gerhartsreiter could face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the murder conviction, plus two additional years because the jury also found that he personally used a blunt object and a sharp instrument as weapons.

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Mr. Biden also suggested he would try to reverse restrictions on government research on weapons injuries, which he suggested had been put in place as an effort to blunt gun-control measures.

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