@Suppressed
Sure they do.
@driftdiver Would you please provide a citation for such a wild claim?
For murder, here are the stats from the FBI UCR for 2016:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/table-12For US, including DC and USVI:
Total murders was | 15,070 |
Total firearm murders was | 11,004 |
Total knife murders was | 1,604 |
I don't think there's a huge number of accidental knife deaths compared to firearms (I'll let you look that up), and 60% of firearm deaths are suicide, and I don't think there are thousands upon thousands of knife suicides.
Are you trying to say that there's a lot more utility in using a knife for self-defense than a gun? If not, then where are all these invisible knife deaths you're claiming?
Knives don't "kill a lot more people then [
sic] guns" in the US, unless you're being silly and saying that you meant that knives kill a lot more people than knives kill guns.
Besides, guns and knives don't kill people....people and bump stocks kill people (at least, according to the NRA)}.