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In the previous thread about this, some ding-dong suggested that paramedics, or Chinese people, or British people, all apparently old hands in dealing with the after-effects of stabbings, might consider knives to be more deadly than guns.

25 people died in mass school stabbings in China between 2010 and 2012; that's 25 out of 1.3 billion. Compare that to 55 deaths in mass school shootings in the same period in the US out of a population of 315 million.

Gun fetishists seem to always bring up the UK as some knife-crazy dystopia where the cowardy-custard population lives in fear of the blade, unable to defend themselves by standing their ground and shooting people who look like criminals, passers-by and anyone else who gets in the way. Let me copypaste my comment from the previous thread:

In 2012 in the UK (population approx. 60 million), there were:

29,503 offences involving knives or other sharp instruments (this includes anything sharp; broken glass and screwdrivers are the most common).

4,490 hospital admissions for wounds caused by knives or other sharp instruments.

193 murders involving knives or other sharp instruments.

So, two-thirds of one percent of all crime in the UK involving knives or other sharp instruments results in death. And less than five percent of all hospital admissions in the UK for wounds caused by knives or other sharp instruments result in death.

In 2012, there were as many gun murders in the US every two-and-a-bit days than there were knife/sharp instrument murders in the UK in the entire year.

In summary, I believe that guns are more deadly than knives.
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We discussed this yesterday.
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@3

If anyone had a discussion yesterday, you weren't involved in it. Your only comment was a snidy drive-by that implied that a mass attack with a bladed weapon in a school has as much in common with a hollandaise sauce recipe than with fucking school shootings.
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That dude is so getting laid.
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@5: Yup.
@6: That's because state borders are open borders, and so there is LITERALLY NOTHING to stop people from buying a gun in the next state over and bringing it home with them.
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I'd take on a knife-wielding assailant for a chance to date any girl named "Trinity McCool!"
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@1, that's right. I was about to respond to that foolish notion before work interfered and snatched up my time. We also discussed this issue when a deranged prick in China attacked school children with a knife the same day a deranged prick in America attacked school children at Sandy Hook with a gun. Recall which of those two events had zero fatalities.
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The comments on Instagram are depressing - various children claiming that the schoolkids should have been able to overpower the knife-wielder and 'beat him up.' They obviously think violence in real life is actually like violence in the movies.
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@10: Kind of like all the commenters suggesting that the police officer who shot the bank robber recently should have just shot him once in the legs or simply wrestled the knife away from him.

Fantasy world violence.
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ding dong here!

Gun fetishists seem to always bring up the UK as some knife-crazy dystopia where the cowardy-custard population lives in fear of the blade, unable to defend themselves by standing their ground and shooting people who look like criminals, passers-by and anyone else who gets in the way. Let me copypaste my comment from the previous thread:


Can you say anything with out an ad hominem attack?

My point about the mentioning the uk was attached the earlier mention of knives not being so great. Stab wounds will kill very very fast. Hence it being mentioned in the context of "ask an EMT" but if you want to just call people names and drop random quotes, lets look at how wonderful the land of gun control and tossers is for an average citizen:

"Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504"

Most deaths linked to "gun crime" in the states from non impartial sources conflate suicides "children" who are over 18 and high crime areas like the blighted dense inner city ( read Chicago ) to attempt to make the national average look scary and terrible. like you did above.
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@13, well, what did you expect? Saying that there are 9,000 gun-related homicides a year (most of which involve gang-bangers, drug dealers, or other ne'er-do-wells) just doesn't have the same impact.

These people don't use actual facts for a reason — appealing to emotions is generally more successful.
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@8: except her parents named after 1 of 2 Trinities:
1. God Jesus the Holy Spririt
2. Matrix Trinity
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Oh my christ what the fuck is up with this "selfies" fanaticism? People have been doing this with their phones for YEARS. A kid took a picture of himself in the mirror after a significant event. Holy fuck. Let's write about it.

Fucking come on this isn't journalism.
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Dog whistles much, Mr. 13 and 14?

Wouldn't your time be better spent burning a cross?
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But hey, #13 and #14 have cracked the case!

Those kindergarteners killed in Sandy Hook, and the white teenagers at Colombine WERE ACTUALLY BLACK 19 YEAR OLD GANG BANGERS IN DISGUISE!

As was the teacher and other adult killed. SO THEY ALL BROUGHT THEIR MURDERS ON THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY WERE ACTUALLY BLACK 19 YEAR OLD GANG BANGERS IN DISGUISE!

And not only that, but the WHITE SHOOTERS WERE ALSO ACTUALLY BLACK 19 YEAR OLD GANG BANGERS IN DISGUISE!

So everybody forget your silly empathy and shit like that, as well as facts and stuff, because ACCORDING TO #13 AND #14, ALL VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. -- AS WELL AS THE SHOOTERS -- ARE ACTUALLY BLACK 19 YEAR OLD GANG BANGERS IN DISGUISE!

WHO DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE, ACCORDING TO #13 AND #14.
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CORRECTION:

I may be overstating the case, because I'm sure #13 and #14 would stipulate that SOME VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. -- AS WELL AS THE SHOOTERS -- ARE ACTUALLY BROWN 19 YEAR OLD GANG BANGERS IN DISGUISE!

WHO DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE, ACCORDING TO #13 AND #14.
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I don't think it is only the prevalence of guns in the US that leads to the high homicide rate (yes, there is lots of violent crime in Europe as well, but our murder rates are way lower than American murder rates). If crime was just caused by the guns available, Switzerland and Canada would have much higher murder rates.

The problem is American culture. Violence and vigilantism as problem-solving strategies are much more accepted than in civilised countries, even among so-called "liberals".
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@19 Man you pro lifers don't care about how and why, do you?

FACTS DON"T COUNT BABIES DIED! IF WE SAVE ONE LIFE ITS WORTH IT!
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Can't wait for the kidz to be updating Instaface during the next rampage.

OMG!
Jus got shot : (
WUTRUDOIN?
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This thread went downhill faster than three fat kids on a toboggan.
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@13

I stand by my analysis of you as a ding-dong, and a prize ding-doing at that.

The UK Home Office defines violent crime as being any crime against the person and any sexual offence. In 2010, less than half of the crimes against the person resulted in an injury and less than a quarter of the sexual offences were rape.

The FBI (you used the FBI figures) count only four offences as violent: non-negligent murder/manslaughter; aggravated assault; robbery; and forcible rape.

If the UK Home Office defined violent crime the way the FBI do, the figures would be very similar.

Anyway, my point isn't that the UK or the US is any more violent than the other. I honestly don't care either way. I was just making clear that: A, knifes are far, far less deadly than guns and mass-murder attempts with knifes will almost always be less deadly than mass-murder attempts with guns; & B, gun control has not lead to out-of-control violent crime, with or without knives, in the UK.
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BABIES DIED! IF WE SAVE ONE LIFE ITS WORTH IT!

Um, yeah.
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@1, 24

Yummy handle.

I'm hungry now.
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indeed, the dead take no selfies.
That's one of their most endearing qualities.
The living, on the other hand... meh
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The premise of the headline is false. Only zombies, and therefore only the dead, take selfies. The living are too busy living.

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