School & Public Stabbings

[Blindgreed1]

Despite the statistics you posted, if I had to choose I'd rather have someone coming at me with a knife than a gun. I'd have a better chance at dodging a knife than bullets and that's the only point MS was trying to make. But I guess you'd choose the gun because statistically they are used as murder weapons more often.

If it's so easy to dodge a knife, why do so many people die from it?

Jesus Christ. I didn't say it was so easy. If Norman Bates came after me in the shower with a butcher knife I probably wouldn't survive. I'm not denying that. But if I was in a public setting and a lunatic walked in with the intent to kill as many people as possible my chances of survival would be better with a single knife than multiple bullets flying everywhere from a firearm.

Maybe this is a common misconception and that is why more people are murdered with knives? Or maybe it's because people who murder with knives don't realize how deadly a knife is? Or maybe those who murder with guns aren't very good shots? All points to consider for sure, but it brings us right back to the main issue doesn't it? If more people are murdered with knives that are murdered with assault rifles, why are so many people bound and determined to make the AR-15 illegal when a more deadly implement of destruction goes under the radar. Are we truly concerned for public safety and making an attempt to do something about it or are gun laws another form of "Security Theater?" Looking at the statistics for California and Illinois (toughest gun laws in the country) i'd say it's akin to taking your shoes off in the airport. In 2013, there were 5,782 murders by handgun in the U.S. According to FBI data, 20 percent of those — 1,157 of the 5,782 handgun murders — happened in Illinois and California, which have two of the toughest state gun control regimes in the entire country. And even though California and Illinois contain about 16 percent of the nation’s population, those two states are responsible for over 20 percent of the nation’s handgun murders.