10-29-2008, 05:00 PM
newbiecollector Wrote:Personally I have never heard of a person being stabbed with a gun. There is a bit of a problem with that I think, stabbing and knife related crimes.Our knife related statistics are around 200 people a year killed with knives.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any knife related death statistics for the US.
However, I suspect the total of Knife related deaths in the US will be much higher by proportion that they are in the UK. Perhaps the reason that US knife statistics are not easily found, is they are not considered as important as gun related deaths and are therefore less prevalent in your media reporting.
If you add the gun related and knife related deaths per year in the UK, they total around 280. This is still far far fewer than the US statistics for gun related deaths.
If as MF says it has more to do with the US culture, then this begs the question as to what is it about that culture that makes people want to kill each other so readily?
It also needs to be understood that it is far quicker, easier and more likely to kill someone with a gun, than it is with a knife.