Washington Resistance Army wrote:A-Series-Of-Tubes wrote:
Terrorism in the West is an insignificant threat to life, compared to common murder. Gang violence is significant, at about a third of murders in the US. But neither of them is a good example of violence that could be prevented by law-abiding citizens owning guns.
The average person has a 50% chance of being able to run away from a knife attack. That right there makes knives less of a threat than guns.
I'm not sure that's a real statistic.
It's just like "50% of people have below average IQ". It follows directly from assuming one person wielding a knife is average, and the person being attacked is average.
Maybe you'd rather assume knife assailants tend to be young men? Given that implies that MORE people would fancy their chances of attacking with a gun, if they had a gun rather than a knife?