Annachie wrote:TFLYTSNBN wrote:https://news.yahoo.com/man-20s-stabbed-death-london-hours-theresa-mays-knife-crime-summit-075309453.html
Let me give PM May a hint.
It isn't the knives, stupid.
You're right.
It isn't.
It would also be a shit tonne worse if the UK had the same access to guns as the USA.
I just perused the FBI crime stats for 2,0000 which is the most recent years that I have printed copies of. Data quality of the online version is lower.
The lethality rate for assaults with firearms is 7 %.
The lethality rate for assaults with knives is 1.4%.
This comparison is somewhat questionable because many of both types are not reported.
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Well crap, I screwed up the quote structure.
Just for a little more information here is an article on a study of actual fatality rates from stab wounds verses gun shot wounds.
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news- ... ar-for-gunThe fatality rates from actual wounds are nearly equal.
Gun can inflict wound at a considerable distance, but most people can not fire a handgun accurately enough to reliably hit a human beyond effective knife fighting range. Then again, people such as myself are potentially lethal with a rifle from well byond a mile. The FBI usually reports fewer than half a dozen fatalities from "sniper attack" each year and most of them are committed with handguns.
Another interesting bit of information is this:
https://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1993/1 ... ives-00000The fatality rate from gunshot wounds varies with the type of firearm. Shotguns are by far the most lethal which is to be expected because of either extremely large projectile caliber (.729 inches for 12 gauge) or multiple projectiles. Interestingly, wounds from handguns are more lethal than wounds from rifles. This makes sense because most handguns are larger caliber than most rifles and wound chanel volume correllates very closely with fatality rates.