KimGordon67
Rampant feminist
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Hence England's dilemma. They banned guns and murder rates stayed the same but murder by stabbing/slashing went up So they banned most knives one would carry and murders stayed the same, stabbing/slashing stayed the same but kitchen knives were used for nearly all of them. So they banned the sale of kitchen knives with sharp points. Haven't heard the results on that one yet but I'm betting anything sharper than a plastic butterknife will be banned soon.
The US and the UK (handily co-located on this table) have homicide rates of 4.88 and and 0.92 per 100,000 respectively. I'm not stupid enough to suggest guns are the only reason for one figure being five times the other figure, but it seems unlikely that they don't contribute to that fairly significant difference.
I'd be interested to see your evidence for homicide rates staying the same in the UK after guns were 'banned'. (I'm also a bit puzzled, as I thought widespread gun ownership hasn't been legal in the UK in modern times at all - so when exactly did this 'ban' happen?)