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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
We don't? Through 2011-2016 there were 969 knife homicides committed, compared to 797 for firearms. Stats can says the weapon of choice used in violent crimes is a knife.
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Well if you want to use numbers to prove absolutely nothing.... there are about 13 million household in Canada. Lets say each one has 10 knives, which is probably low, but anyway, that's 130 million knives in Canada, ignoring restaurants, and all the other sources of knives. I'm really low-balling here.... There are about 10 million guns, So taking your stats...
That's 969 knife homicides per 130 million knives for a rate of 0.745 per 100 000.
797 firearms deaths per 10 million guns...7.97 per 100 000.
That's 10 times the rate! Thus guns are 10 times worse than knives. Numbers don't lie.