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Originally posted by Big Smoke
I think the point is that people are still getting killed either way.
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But they're not. They're not getting killed at a comparable rate at all. You physically cannot kill as many people in a short amount of time safely with a knife as you can with a gun.
There's a reason people don't go hunting with knives. There's a reason our military isn't armed with knives. It is HARD to kill with a knife, much less pull off a massacre with a knife. There is physically no way that Adam Lanza could have stabbed the entire classroom of children without someone intervening, or without a lot being able to run to safety. A gun kills almost instantly.
By your logic, we may as well legalize bombs, because "its not bombs that kill people, people kill people, people will get killed anyway!" It makes no sense.