School & Public Stabbings

[sally]

I'm very glad none of the four victims in yesterday's school stabbing died.

I'm also very glad that none of the 20 victims stabbed by the high school student in the OP died.

I can't recall a case where a mass public shooter failed to tally any fatalities.

In any case, guns are the most popular weapons used for killing people in the U.S., by a long shot. That's just a fact and there are reasons why criminals and nut jobs prefer guns over more readily accessible knives.



^ I formatted and took a photo of the FBI stats: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr...ta-table-8

If a criminal or nut job was already right up in my grill with an intent to kill me, I'd take my chances with a gun as opposed to a knife. At that point, it's a matter of trying to get the weapon or overpower the person. Guns are easier/safer to grab than knives.

If it's instead a matter of someone coming at me from a distance with weapon in sight, they can shoot and incapacitate/kill me without making any personal contact - leaving me no chance to run or put up a fight. So, I'll take my chances with a knife-wielder as opposed to a gun-wielder.

If the criminal is intent on killing as many people as possible before he/she gets taken down, I think a semi-automatic gun is by far his/her best weapon and my chances of being among the ones to get away are less than with a knifeman because guns can hit more targets with less effort.

I wouldn't take a knife to a gunfight, personally. Some of you apparently would. Different strokes.

That's all common sense, but neither BG or FU will admit it because they run the chance of us printing out everything they say and taking it to the supreme court in an effort to have AR-15's banned.