I've been once threatened by an ex-gf with a knife, telling me she was gonna kill me. You know what I felt ? A mild worry, "come on, drop that, it's not worth it". She threw it across the kitchen and cried in my arms (difficult breakup, she has an history of family violence and alcohol abuse and comes from Myanmar, a tough place. We're both fine).

She would have had, to actually endanger me:

- to have enough strength to penetrate anything

- the courage to see a lot of blood and cries to actually go through with a full murder

- resist me fighting her back if it went to that, close range

- not react to any rational argument I would beg her to listen to while she attacked me

It was a bit traumatizing, but we laugh at it now... she failed at the first rational argument I presented "don't do it, don't ruin your life for a guy".

Imagine if we were in a gun country, and she pressed the trigger accidentally... it's not the same, you must understand that, knife murders are really really hard, gun murders really really easy.

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trimethylpurine 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.humanium.org/en/the-horrifying-impact-of-knife-c...

Is this because they legalized knives? Obviously not.

It's because murder typically rises with poverty and wealth disparity.

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kyleee 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Downplaying the dangers of knives, just tells us you don’t actually know much about knives…

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kulahan 5 days ago | parent [-]

I've never heard anyone say knives are particularly dangerous outside of people trained in how to fight with them. They tend to be pretty damn short to begin with, unless you're sneaking a machete around in your pants (or are you just happy to see me?)

	▲	seanmcdirmid 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There have been more than a few mass stabbings in China where lots of kids, from people who aren’t particularly trained in knifing people. There was the Wuxi vocational school stabbing in 2024 where 8 people were killed, there is a long list of school attacks, most of them are stabbings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_attacks_in_Chin... There was also the Kunming train station mass stabbing a decade or so ago, killing 31 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack Note that China does have a pretty low homicide rate, probably since guns are so hard to get ahold of (death penalty for even producing guns in backyard workshops).
	▲	jbboehr 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I bought a knife a while back and, unfortunately, found out that it is really sharp. It could probably cut through flesh like butter.