A while back, the Parents Against Gun Violence posted this on Facebook and one of the people on my friends list shared it.
This was my response based on just a few minutes of searching newspaper articles on the Internet...
A man stabbed his wife to death for filing for divorce. (NY 2016)
Two girls stabbed another girl to please a fictional character, Slender Man. (WI 2015)
Man stabs Morgan Freeman's goddaughter to death because she was possessed by devils. (NY 2015)
Man stabs 9 year old boy because, "I wanted to see what it was like to take a life before someone tried to take mine." (CA 2015)
Student stabs teacher to death because, "She was giving me grief." (TX 2014)
Woman blames father-in-law for her husband's suicide and stabs him 31 times. (CA 2015)
A man was stabbed in a restaurant in an argument over “the way another patron was speaking to a waitress.” (MI 2012)
Man stabbed another man in road rage argument for allegedly cutting off his wife. (TX 2015)
Gun or knife...it doesn't matter. It's the PERSON behind the tool, not the tool itself.
This was my response based on just a few minutes of searching newspaper articles on the Internet...
A man stabbed his wife to death for filing for divorce. (NY 2016)
Two girls stabbed another girl to please a fictional character, Slender Man. (WI 2015)
Man stabs Morgan Freeman's goddaughter to death because she was possessed by devils. (NY 2015)
Man stabs 9 year old boy because, "I wanted to see what it was like to take a life before someone tried to take mine." (CA 2015)
Student stabs teacher to death because, "She was giving me grief." (TX 2014)
Woman blames father-in-law for her husband's suicide and stabs him 31 times. (CA 2015)
A man was stabbed in a restaurant in an argument over “the way another patron was speaking to a waitress.” (MI 2012)
Man stabbed another man in road rage argument for allegedly cutting off his wife. (TX 2015)
Gun or knife...it doesn't matter. It's the PERSON behind the tool, not the tool itself.