Are you willing?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Source please - this seems to say otherwise:


Edit - Stats for 2007-2011 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...e-data-table-8. In 2011 there were 8,583 homicides involving firearms, compared to 1,694 for 'knives and other cutting instruments'.

That is correct I admit but you should also note that you are most likely to be killed by an acquaintance rather than a stranger.If you add all known types listed they equal 5790 excluding the number for acquaintance (2,700) if you added the two 8490 people where killed by someone that they knew compared to 1,481 persons murdered by a complete stranger in 2011.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...-data-table-10

In this light I propose that having friends,family members,and any other form of acquaintance is hazardous to public safety and having such relationships should be illegal.

Why not look at the entire complied statistic rather than part of it.And if you remove or make one weapon harder to acquire the only stat that will change is the weapon used.Do you think that people will stop killing simply because one tool goes away?

And why not compile a stat that showed the total number of firearms in the US and then how many people get murdered by a firearm and also separate homicides from suicide which the FBI does not do?To me suicides are separate because that person would have killed themselves regardless. If they did the ratio of firearms legally used compared to those used to murder would be very very low.