Don't you think it's easier to kill a person with a gun than with a knife?
Every household has multiple knives capable of inflicting fatal wounds. Not every household has guns. A large percentage of homicides are "crimes of passion," in which the perp reaches for the nearest available weapon.
Again, I rarely post in this thread because no one is going to budge. But that's exactly what I was trying to point out yesterday when I posted about about knife murders in the UK. My point was that angry, violent people are going to kill people with whatever is handy. That's all.
And I'm still looking for a RELIABLE stat on the percentage of murders committed with knives, or baseball bats for that matter, here in the United States.
