Mass shooting Las Vegas

[EricHiggin]

SpokenTruth said:

Superman4 said:

Deaths and assaults by knife jumped dramatically after the ban on guns. In the USthe liberals hate guns and blame them on everything. The right doesnt even want background checks because they are assholes and just want to piss off the liberals. In reality more people die in car accidents every year than by gun violence and mass shotings like what happened in Vegas are even more rare. The terror attack on Sept 11th killed more people than Sandy Hook, Florida night club, colombine and Vegas put together.

Did knife assaults and death go up by an equatable number compared to the reduction in deaths and assaults by guns?   In other words, was there a net positve in the number of lives saved?

That could only make a point about the here and now. It doesn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Even if by chance the death toll was now 25% less, the fact remains that the majority who wants guns banned (who are truthfully just saying we don't want to see inncocent people being killed), now have no choice but to take all of that gun concern, and use it to ban all knives. Otherwise they are simply hypocrites. One could easily assume however, that very little would be said about banning knives, because most of the people who are trying to ban guns, are the type of people who don't see the need for them in their own lives. However, to these same people, knives most likely are a useful everyday tool for them, so banning them wouldn't be ok. That's not how it works. Once you start down the rabbit hole, you can't stop until you get to the bottom.