The important thing right now is that we not offend the nation's gun apologists

[MillennialDem]

79. Yes I said as much - but again there are so many different calibers of gun (in addition to rifle vs

handgun vs shotgun, grains, hollowpoint vs full metal jacket, etc) and different types of knives - a swiss army knife, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a kitchen knife, or a giant hunting knife or sword. Some may be relatively or very dull.

Also I suspect many stab wounds are relatively intentionally non-fatal (stabs in the hands/arms and legs/feet - I would suspect this occurs far more often than intentional shots to the legs/feet and hands/arms). A kid stabbed another kid at my school through the hand with a pencil. I bet this happens far more often than someone shooting someone else through the hand on purpose.

And again, when you count things like screwdrivers and scissors and pencils as stab wounds, that also matters.

If you just compared sharp KNIVES vs guns then it would get closer to similar fatality rates.

And again, a 50 bmg isn't going to take your head off in one shot. A sword or a 12" knife will. That's the only thing we know of that is always fatal.

People survive gun shots and stabs to the brains, hearts, spine, etc (even with large calibers and/or large blades). Often not for the best, but you know... they do survive sometimes. But they don't survive losing their head.

But yes it is of course much harder physically and emotionally to stab someone to death than to shoot them to death.

Just don't think knife wounds are nothing and guns are instant death rays (people often hold those two views).