""Ok, let's talk about other weapons. Knife crimes are quite popular in the UK, Are their victims less dead than someone who got shot??""

Disingenuous Captain. As far as I know "DEAD" is an absolute. It has no degrees.

The proportion of victims who survive knife attacks is much larger than for gunshot victims. So the answer to your question is that those who are dead are just as dead, but many more of them are not dead at all.

You could take that ad absurdum argument to the point of banning nylon stockings because it is possible to strangle someone, or ban baseball bats, golf clubs and chair legs, all of which have been used to kill.

The real point is that guns kill at a distance beyond arm's reach, they are the most certain way to ensure somebody dies and the only effective defence is another gun.

BTW knife killings too are mostly gang and/or drugs related, and the chance of the ordinary UK man in the street being either shot or stabbed is very small.

Just between ourselves, many of us in the UK are quite happy for gang members and drug dealers to remove each other from the gene pool.

Don T.