Right. As much as Republicans here in the states love to deflect and talk about “knife crime” in other countries, it’s just not on the same level as gun crime here. Knives can kill people too, yes. (Even bare hands and feet can kill people.) But you can’t have drive-by knifings, and it’s a lot more challenging to murder dozens at once in a “mass knifing incident.” It takes a lot more intentionality and skill to kill with a knife, or another weapon like a hammer. Guns lower the barrier to killing by making it all too easy, Hence, whenever guns are involved, you’ll get more more death than in any equivalent situation involving knives or bare hands.
This is all painfully common-sense to most citizens of the first-world, but pro-gun propaganda is a powerful thing in this country (thanks, “Second Amendment”) and breaking the spell of this death cult is work that will take decades, at least, and perhaps it will curse us forever.
The way to make crime less deadly is to take guns away from criminals, period.
