agreed Id rather be killed by stabbing than shooting any day of the week.......... slow painful death is usually better
just took a quick glance via google at some statistics
and granted that most US homicides are by gun (about 68%)....... dont think anyone would be silly enough to argue otherwise
but about 15% are by knife (thats about 2500 people) ...... thats a pretty staggering number....... enough that I think we need some knife control......... you can cut your steaks with a spoon
and more alarmingly ........ about 7% (or about 1200 people) are classified under "personal weapons"......... which includes such things as dildo beatings, tampon suffocations, and strangulation with pantyhose.... all of which clearly need tighter regulations and some banning...... seriously.... 1200 dildo beatings...... thats outrageous
btw I dont think a burglar coming into your house does know not to bring a gun...... since about 40% of homicides in Ireland are through gun useage
Edit: oops..... forgot to add my source
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+use+google
and away from exploiting the issue for political purposes I just read this which has a lot more to do with the problem
this is being falsely attributed to Morgan Freeman via the internet..... he hasnt made any such statements....... but whomever did say this was pretty well spot on (sorry for the running paragraph, its a C&P, I didnt format it that way)
"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why. It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody. CNN's article says that if the body count 'holds up,' this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next. You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."