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Well, I situated it well enough in my first paragraph, but I'll restate it since you didn't quote that section:
A terrorist doesn't need to be a very good shot to approach a flight attendent from behind in a friendly and normal fashion, quickly place one's hand a few inches (or even less) from any number of lethal spots in a typical gesture (take your pick: feigns a stumble, tap on the back, butt grabbing and hand to the throat, etc.) to kill someone.
I don't know if you understood my point that the utility of such a weapon is essentially useless for "stopping power" or protection or whatever other conventional use you might be envisioning. The use would only seem to be in a specific, stealthy, highly planned/coordinated attack perpetrated on an unsuspecting victim(s) using very common human behaviors and responses to them.
[that is, when someone starts to stumble, we tend to try and stop their fall, especially when our job is an attendent of some sort; when someone violates our personal space in a predictable, but non-violent manner (pinches one's butt, for example) we tend to turn and slap the person or brush the hand off--not do some martial arts spin and stance]
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