Tonight I was discussing “open carry” with a friend of mine, and he said more people were killed each year by knives than by guns. I told him no way, but I didn’t have anything to back up my opinion, so I let it go. After he left I looked up some statistics. In 2018, according to the FBI, the murder statistics looked like this:
handguns 6,603
knives 1,515
blunt objects 443
rifles 297
shotguns 235
“other guns” 167
There were also poisonings, drownings, asphyxiation, and a few other minor categories, but they were fairly insignificant except to the people who were murdered and their friends and families.
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