Mass murder by assault knife

bearcreek said:

So, say you're in a conversation with an acquaintance about gun control and you use this argument. Suppose he/she then says, "well, it's way easier to kill far more people much more quickly with a gun than with a knife". What is your response? Clearly what they just stated is entirely true.

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DJW said:

this hysteria is spreading like wildfire. common sense is apparently gone. sometimes I am glad to be 76 and not have to worry about having a pocket knife confiscated by the authorities. guess nobody believes people can act right and behave without government overreach into every aspect of our lives. I personally have been shooting, reloading, and enjoying sports involving firearms for 68 yrs. with no incidents of being aggressive or dangerous to anybody or anything except paper targets, game, and pests.

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SharpDog said:

As stated above, approx 3K people were killed on 9/11 with a few small knives

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JTHunter said:

Now be serious ! They used the knives/boxcutters to capture and hold their weapons of choice - the airplanes. The knives were only a "means to an end".

IIRC, England did (or tried to) ban glass beer steins in pubs because too many of them were being used as weapons in fights. About the same time, I seem to remember a report that had them banning pointed, sharp-edged knives, even "steak" knives. About the only knives left were round-tipped dull ones like butter spreaders.

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Even today, there are a lot of non-firearm mass murders in America: In USA Today’s collection of mass murders for the period 2006 to 2017, nearly a quarter were done without guns. And most of them you have probably not heard about because they do not advance the Left’s cause of disarming the peasants.

There’s the 1973 mass murder at a gay bar in New Orleans that killed 32: An ejected customer went down the street and bought a can of cigarette-lighter fluid. And the 87 murdered in New York City in 1990: A guy upset with his ex-girlfriend bought $1 worth of gasoline. In 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, union officers put pressure on an employer by using camp-stove gas to murder 97. On July 5 of this year, a guy in Port Angeles, Wash., burned his trailer, killing his wife and three children. Did you see that on CNN?

Nations with strict gun-control laws still have mass murders. One man stabbed to death five people with a kitchen knife at a Calgary party

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