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> it's extremely unlikely anyone would have been able to get close enough to him with a knife to kill him without someone noticing.

What do you mean? If you go to any public place in the world, you can get very close to hundreds of people in a very short time. Knife assassinations happen all the time.

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> in this specific case

You could have quoted the beginning of the sentence, where the point was about this specific case, and how in this particular case, a gun clearly allowed an assassination that would have been challenging to pull off with a knife.

That is not a way as saying killing someone with a knife is impossible. It's a way of saying that guns allow you to kill people in ways and distances that knives do not.

But what makes this case different? Somebody with a knife could have gotten close to him.

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