FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles In America – It’s Not Even Close

FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles In America – It’s Not Even Close

"Recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado, are driving a renewed push to ban “assault-style” rifles like the AR-15 — but according to FBI data, far more murders are committed with handguns, knives or even hands and feet.

The FBI’s most recent data from 2019 shows that while firearms account for the vast majority of homicides overall — 10,258 — the number of homicides committed using a rifle (364) is much smaller.

...Knives or other “cutting tools” accounted for another 1,476 homicides — about three times the number killed by rifles...Read all.