#NotAnymore

“… because knives are so much less deadly.”

WRONG.

For two reasons.

1) Knives are quicker to get on target at close range, that’s why police have the “21 foot rule”, because anyone who is closer than 21 foot can stab an officer with a knife before an officer can get his gun out and fire it. Even the television show “Myth busters” proved this in their episode “Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”. In that episode, even when the person with the gun was standing in a ready position, knowing that the person with the knife had a knife and intended to use it, they still couldn’t shoot the person if he was closer than 18 feet away.

2) People with knives don’t show them to you 21 feet away and then attack you, they walk right up to you and never give you a chance to figure out what happened.

Handguns have a higher mortality rate than knives, but that’s only because handguns are used in more attacks. The mortality rate on a 1-to-1 knife vs. bullet basis is about even once you get to the emergency room.

“Education is a great idea!”

Yeah, you might want to look into that.

Here’s a sample of the videos you’ll find on Youtube about this topic.

So, your nonsense having been debunked, you’re now resorting to arguments about “feelings” ? Typical.

this strange discussion about knives vs guns is missing facts. According to the FBI data (I found 2014 easily), there were 5562 killings with a hand gun and 1567 by knives or other cutting instruments – 3 times as many hand gun killing as knives – not sure how many of these were domestic violence deaths. On top of this, there were 2,500 other killings by other types of guns include non-specified, for a total of 8,124 killings

Apparently, the issue is not knives

He wasn’t talking about crime statistics, he was talking about domestic abuse. Also, the only reason we’re talking about knives is because Chris made the claim that “knives are much less deadly …” which is false.

To answer your question Chris, the reason guns are so much more likely to be used in severe domestic violence is because there is a gender gap in the use of weapons in domestic violence. Men are 6x more likely to use a gun than a knife, but women are only 1.5 times more likely to use a gun. In fact, combined, women are more likely to use a knife or just beat you to death than use a gun. Combine that bias with the fact that men are more likely to be the aggressor and you have your answer.

Look, genius, unless you want to argue that most domestic violence happens at ranges greater than 20 feet you need to use some common sense and understand the obvious.

Obviously guns are more dangerous than knives, because a criminal can’t do a drive-by knifing of their gang adversaries, because guns work at long ranges.

But the longest range domestic abuse happens at is the length of a home’s hallway, where a gun’s range is not only not helpful, it’s use compared to a knife at that range is PROBLEMATIC.

Why do you think military people train with knives, hand-to-hand combat, etc ? Get a freaking clue, it’s because that rifle they carry is USELESS except as a club at close range.

Read what we were talking about, nobody said guns weren’t more dangerous than knives … I was refuting Chris’s claims that “… knives are so much less deadly …” in the context of domestic violence. Nobody is arguing that guns aren’t more dangerous than knives at greater ranges, so stop trying to put words in my mouth.

just read another report, this one from 2013, that say women were shot and killed by a man 777 out of 1,477 deaths while knives accounted for 292, less than half that number – looks like knives were 66% less deadly

actually, the number say that they are victims, not the attackers – but then again, it is only stats