r/MurderedByWords • u/james_dykeson • Aug 05 '19

Murder Murdered by numbers?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

We still have a huge problem with knife crime though

Absolutely, but it is very difficult to kill 9 people in 30 seconds with a knife or two.

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u/exhentai_user Aug 05 '19

An interesting point that was brought up to me was how deadly a knife vs a gun is to a single target vs multiple targets. One on one, a knife is actually a lot more deadly, because bullet wounds can be treated, so if you run away from the shooter, there is a decent chance you live, even if you get hurt... but a knife is stabbed in and twisted, there is little to no chance of fixing that shit, and it might happen before you know a fight is happening, whereas the gun takes a moment to aim. But that is 1v1. Once you add a second or third target into the mix, the knife is almost entirely ineffective, whereas the gun remains equally deadly as it had before.

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u/GameArtZac Aug 05 '19

What? A bullet hole is easier to patch up than a twisted stab from a knife?

There's too many factors at play from a physics or biological perspective, such as where the wound was, how big of a knife or gun was used, etc. You'd just have to go off of the statistics.

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u/theDoublefish Aug 05 '19

I feel like you have to look at a few statistics to get a clear picture, including but not limited to:

  • rates of stabbing/shootings that result in 1: death, 2: long term/permanent injury
  • rates of stabbings/shootings with intent to kill or permanently maim (difficult to track) that lead to death, permanent injury
  • rates of stabbing/shootings without intent to kill that lead to death, permanent injury