I always laugh when people compare knives and guns. As if they are even remotely close in terms of lethal. And before somebody claims I'm underestimating knives... who here things getting rid of guns in our military and replacing them with knives is a good idea? And that is the root of the problem. Pro gun folks are just bonkers.  Flat out bonkers.  

I wonder in about 10 more years will we need to have a 3 man team in order to leave the house in America. Interesting as I look back in time 20 years ago most violent situations people rarely would have body armor but lately we see that is the new trend. I am sure we will see this be a main stay from here on out as the GOP continue to believe more armed people stop violent situations. Pretty soon you will not be able to leave your house unless you are armored up because as we continue to see, escalation in weaponry just ups the ante on the amount of firepower you will need for each encounter. A hand gun is not going to be enough, you will need to be packing a high powered rifle as well maybe a couple of flashbangs for good measure. Hmm instead of just arming our teachers with guns we should also give them a few flashbangs as well and tactical training. Just having some armed person with a gun seem highly irresponsible in a school setting if they are not properly trained. You can see that this is going to go bad because its going to be some half assed bill put together to say we are doing something but not really thought out.

My prediction is the next generation (my kids) will have strict gun laws and wonder what in the living hell was the older generation thinking. Kind of like how I look at the Jim Crow era in astonishment.  The next generation will be absolutely baffled with our stupidity regarding selling war guns to the general public.

Unless you put walls around each state and border security, state laws on guns aren't gonna do much.

Yes a knife is easier to carry but to kill someone with a knife isn't as easy as with a gun. You are getting blood on your hands, you have to do it at close proximity, most these mass gun shooters would not have the balls to use a knife. Guns are easy for them as they shoot from a distance as no fear of combat and it is less personal than getting blood directly on your hands. In Australia we can't even carry a knife, there is also no need for you to carry one.

Most of the developed world it's people are defenceless and we all seem to be surviving just fine because the first thought on our minds isn't we want to kill each other.

Hard to change systemic gun violence. Hey, I love me some guns too for hunting and recreation, but when guns are entrenched in your political culture and embody your nation, that is very hard to fix.

I think it is important to remember that up until the last two years (largely due to the pandemic) the murder rate has been declining in the U.S since the 90's, and halved from 1990 to 2019. 

While they are much more frequent in the U.S than in other countries, mass shootings are still very rare events. Chances are that in 10 years people are going to be safer than they are now barring some calamity or socio-political discord. 

So if the federal government fixes that problem, then what about the country to the north and the south, or any others in the world that could illegally import those guns? Just look at the people flooding across the border into the US right now. How many guns are going to come into the country regardless? The problem would only be partially solved at best.

Well I already said nobody would be throwing knives from a distance. How many shootings take place where the gunman couldn't have gotten to their target? If you remove the guns, you think criminals won't take another approach if they have to? Did criminals not exist until guns did? A knife is just one example of a different weapon. Another would be a vehicle, and nobody is going to even suggest restricting or banning them, but what about those killed by vehicles being used for the wrong purpose? It's not like once guns were harder to get a hold of, that all criminals would choose the same next weapon.

Better parenting, better schooling, better (mental) healthcare, better policing (+FBI etc), better media coverage, better gun laws (age, training, etc). That's enough to get started anyway.

The supply of guns is such that guns flow from America to Canada and Mexico. Reducing the amount of guns in the USA will severely tamper supply across the whole continent. Even then, if a "partial solution" means less dead kids, I support it. 

I literally never said that crime is impossible without a gun. That doesn't mean the gun isn't pretty damn good at helping people do murders. Also, criminals aren't just sitting around all day plotting how to do crime. It is often impulsive and poorly planned if it is planned at all. Even with something that is more likely to be planned like a mass shooting, removing guns from the situation severely limits the individuals actions in a way which is almost certain to save lives overall. 

Your arguments are so ridiculously forced, but what baffles me is that in the end you still fucking agree with me that we need better gun laws.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF ANY OF THIS IF YOU AGREE WITH THE POINT YOU ARE ARGUING AGAINST?!

A good knife costs pennies on the dollar to what a SIG MCX costs. We could save billions of dollars by issuing our military members knives instead of rifles. I'll bet we'd have kids lined up around the block at recruiting stations around the country if we told them they were going to be fighting wars with knives. 

And as far as fighting off governments goes, I wonder how 2A proponents would like it if women used the 2A to defend their abortion rights. Or if Disney decided to use the Second Amendment to protect itself from Ron DeSantis's administration. 

Probably because I pointed out the irony of this popping up, which somehow others took it to mean I was in full agreement with Stossel I guess, like they somehow assumed I was making other connections prior, which wasn't the case either time.