Posted on 02/20/2018 11:03:54 AM PST by rktman
Knives kill far more people in the United States than rifles do every year.
In the wake of the horrific school shooting in Florida last week, the debate over guns in America has surged again to the forefront oft the political conversation. Seventeen students were killed when a deranged gunman rampaged through the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. Many are calling now for stricter gun laws in the wake of the shooting, specifically targeting the AR-15 rifle and promoting the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban.
However, recent statistics from 2016 show that knives actually kill nearly five times as many people as rifles that year.
According to the FBI, 1,604 people were killed by “knives and cutting instruments” and 374 were killed by “rifles” in 2016.
The statistics match the trends seen in previous years, which show knife murders far outnumbering rifle statistics. In 2013, knives were used to kill 1,490 and rifles were used to kill 285. Handguns far outnumber both knives and rifles in American murders. There were 7,105 murders by handgun in America in 2016.
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You can't dissuade idiots who are convinced of their moral superiority, with facts. Now stop it.
According to the Uniform Crime Statistics, Fists and Feet kill more people than rifles of all types, the AR being a subset of all rifles.
I think the Brits have moved on to Knife Control.
Let’s organize a march on Washington to ban assault knives. if it would save just one life . . .
I used the exact same argument against my snowflake cousin’s husband.
It shut him up and ended the argument. Two years later, I invited him to try out a laser target shooting game. I didn’t tell him till he had it in his hand that the game was a target training tool and he had a legitimate firearm in his hands.
He did fine.
That's not enough, we need to first ban the NKA.
I guess all those drug laws helped
the 64,000 people who overdosed in
2016. More gun laws will work too.
The “Knock out” game killed many people, not one gun was used
According to the Uniform Crime Statistics, Fists and Feet kill more people than rifles of all types, the AR being a subset of all rifles.
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I also read where Fists and Feet kill more people than mass shootings.
We’re 100’s of thousands of times more likely to be in a car wreck by some drunk, or bimbo too preoccupied with testing her BFF about the crazy sex she had the night before than we are facing the business end of a gun, let alone being shot at. When we took the gun safety courses I realized if driving safety was taken just half as seriously as gun safety our insurance premiums would plummet overnight.
Cars? 2017 = 37,461 car deaths.
Knives don’t kill people, people kill...never mind.
Ban knives, bombs, and plastic silverware!
Well darn..! I thought they solved that problem when they took my switchblade knife away from me...
Mass murders are horrific and get a lot of news attention, but statistically their numbers, don’t make more than an infinitesimal fraction of total murders. Mass murderers also usually amount to 5-7 mentally deficient evil people per year, which as a group makes them far safer than young black males.
Are there more vehicles in the US than guns? This is statistically significant.
Michigan just gave mine back!
Y’all know what the most dangerous knife is? The one used to cut a wedding cake.
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