UK Annual Crime Figures Released.

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SciFiBoy said:

makingmusic476 said:

and gun crime has seen a 17% fall.

The number of attempted murders is also down 7%, but attempted murders with knives is up 11%.

Gun crime drops and knife crime rises. Killers will find a way.

well, if you get stabbed, you have much better chance of living than if youre shot.

Do you have any evidence to back this up?

Guns and knives tend to be used in very different ways by most criminals and (from my very limited knowlege) most shootings involve a criminal shooting someone once or twice until they fall down (allowing the criminal to run away) while most stabbings involve a criminal repeatedly stabbing someone in their torso until they stop moving. While incidents with one or two gunshot wounds may or may not be more deadly on average than one or two knife wounds, these stabbings involving dozens of wounds are some of the most deadly incidents in most cities.