The Knife That Has Killed the Most People

Uath

Uath

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Does anyone know the FBI stat about the single brand of knife with the most murders in the USA. I know kitchen knives probably. For non kitchen knives, I wouldn't be surprised if it might be the classic Italian switchblade stiletto from the fifties street gangs. My top guess however, is the ever most popular biker's knife the Buck Folder.
 
I mean as far as an actual single brand and make of knife, Buck 110. I wonder how many people have met their end at its point.
 
I would think that kitchen knives are way, way ahead of everything, followed perhaps by a Buck, and the Italian stiletto's not even getting close to a "most favored" weapon. I'm sure enough internet surfing would provide the correct information. geegee
 
I do remember reading here a while back that kitchen knives are used most of the time for "civilian" murders. K-Bars are probably up there.
Why the heck do you care? This seems like a question that an anti-knife legislator might ask.
Sorry if that sounded rude but it appears as though you're trying to find out the worst about the knife world, while most of try to focus on the positive.
 
Knives are weapons and tools. Do you think that exploring their history as weapons is concentrating on the negative? I would never support knife legislation, but I've always interested in crime stats. Knife crime is a viable subject for study.
 
Originally posted by Uath
Knives are weapons and tools. Do you think that exploring their history as weapons is concentrating on the negative? I would never support knife legislation, but I've always interested in crime stats. Knife crime is a viable subject for study.
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Do you really think that criminal statisticians actually sit down and keep track of knife brands? :rolleyes:
 
......it's definitely the Buck 110........whatsamatta Mayo, not up on yer ER stats?!?!? :-)

Larry S.
 
I used to be a big-city mortician in Seattle. I couldn't keep track of the people I've seen killed with blades. Knives are like rattlesnakes, you can get comfortable with them, but you can never forget what they are. They're weapons. Among the criminal classes, they are often the weapon of choice.
As students of the knife. We must explore historical applications. When a knife is a weapon, how well does it work? When you talk about people that actually use knives as weapons, what knife do they choose and why? I dont think those questions are particularly unenlightened.
 
I don't know.... I suspect that long before you get down to Buck knives, you will go through a list of every cheap flea market knife that has ever existed. The street kids don't care whether it is elegant or collectible as long as it has a point on one end.

n2s
 
Uath, you really need to think before you type. Seriously, the things you come up with! First, your thread about the LOTR swords being crap and now this? :rolleyes:
 
They're weapons. Among the criminal classes, they are often the weapon of choice.
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No, they are tools; and that is how 99.9999% of the population uses them; and, the way 99.9999% of the population has used them ever since someone sharpened a rock back in the stone age. The only person that I have ever stabbed with a knife is myself, and I suspect that its the same for most of us.

n2s
 
Knife crime is a viable subject for study.
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I think taken in that context, the question is reasonable. I would think that if there were ever a legitimate study done in this area, all the auto knife laws would have to be eliminated. The findings would probably leave little doubt that auto's were made illegal strictly based on appearance, and what's worse, appearances from movies made in the early 1960's (and how come Congress went after switchblades, but never made motorcycles illegal? Using their logic, if switchblades should be illegal because they're the weapon of choice by motorcycle gangs, shouldn't the biker's method of transportation also be made illegal, so they couldn't roam the country causing mayhem? Marlo Brando and his gang taking cabs everywhere, carrying SAK's-that's the ticket! ). Kind of a rant...sorry 'bout that. :o geegee
 
Boxcutters. Let's try to post something a little more sensible now.--Joe
 
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