SethBullock wrote:Aussie wrote:Seth:And yes, our murder rate is higher than yours is. But your rate of murder by knifing and beating is by far higher than ours is. I'm not saying that one form of murder is better than the other. But it points to the fact that if someone is determined to commit murder, they will use other means in the absence of guns.
True, but tell me.....how many school kids or teenagers have been mass slaughtered by some ONE dickhead using a knife?
I don't know, Aussie. Not very many. Here are some excerpts from the linked article....On July 22–23, 2015, five members of the Bever family were murdered in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. A medical examiner determined that the common cause of death was "multiple sharp force injuries", in other words stabbed to death…
The Gage Park stabbings refers to the murders of six members of the Martinez family in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago. Five of the victims were stabbed to death, and the sixth victim was shot.
The Maksim Gelman stabbing spree was a 28-hour killing spree lasting from February 11 to 12, 2011, in New York City, which involved the killing of four people and the wounding of five others.
In 2014, in the Cairns suburb of Manoora in Australia,eight children were found dead. The victims were aged between 18 months and 14 years. The bodies, with stab wounds, were discovered by the children's 20-year-old brother.
Also in 2014. Matthew de Grood, stabbed five young adults to death at a house party in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The June 2017 London Bridge attack was an Islamic terrorist attack in London, United Kingdom. A van left the road and struck a number of pedestrians on London Bridge. After the van crashed, its three occupants ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs. Eight people were killed and 48 were injured, including four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants. (almost impossible to even get a illegal gun in England, note the 4 unarmed police officers who died).
On 3 August 2016, a mass stabbing occurred in Russell Square, London. Six people were stabbed, one fatally, before a suspect, identified as Zakaria Bulhan, was apprehended by police.
The Akihabara massacre was an incident of mass murder that took place in 2008, in Sotokanda, Tokyo, Japan. A man drove into a crowd with a truck, killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger killing four people and injuring eight.
The Osaka school massacre took place on June 8, 2001, at Ikeda Elementary School, an elite primary school affiliated with Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers.
The Sagamihara stabbings were committed on 26 July 2016 in Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. 19 people were killed and 26 others were injured, 13 severely, at a care home for disabled people.
The Shimonoseki Station massacre took place on September 29, 1999, when Yasuaki Uwabe, then aged 35, drove a car into the Shimonoseki Station. Exiting the car, he proceeded to stab passers-by at random until apprehended at the scene. As a result of his actions, five people were killed and 10 others were injured.
In China - Yan Yanming entered a dormitory at the Ruzhou Number Two High School in Ruzhou, China on November 26, 2004, with a knife and attacked twelve boys, killing nine of them.
https://www.quora.com/How-many-mass-mur ... nd-no-guns
Oh come on. How many of those victims were asleep (or otherwise disabled) at the time of the fatal knife attack?
