On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:30:02 -0700, Jim Stewart
wrote:

Gary Coffman wrote:
On 17 Jul 2003 12:02:06 -0700, (Tony Pratt) wrote:

The designed purpose of any gun ever made is to kill or maim in the
most efficient manner, clearly no other object comes into this
category!!

On the domestic front, the CDC reports that 1 in 42 gunshot wounds
are fatal, while 1 in 7 stabbing attacks are fatal. That makes an attack
by a knife wielding assailant 8 times more likely to prove fatal than an
attack by an assailant with a gun. (The explanation for this disparity
is that a knife wielding assailant is more likely to press home the attack,
and keep stabbing until the victim ceases to twitch than is an assailant
with a firearm.)

Firstly, you're comparing knife *attacks* with
gunshot *wounds*, clearly non-sequitur.

Huh? Knife attacks ALWAYS produce wounds. Knife fighters say that the
winner of the knife fight is the one whom leaves in an ambulence.

Non sequtier my ass.

Gunner

Secondly, no matter how I run the math, I don't
get a 8x difference. 6x, yes, 8x, no.


"What do you call someone in possesion of all the facts? Paranoid.-William Burroughs