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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7554929" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>People surviving several knife strikes is not an outlier. an outlier is the teenager in Brighton in 2016 suffering over 100 knife wounds (in case you're curious, the highest number of gunshot wounds to survive is 21, in 2010 in New York). I'd love to see your citation of where you came up with your first statistic. I can't find any study that was done for how many bullet wounds vs how many knife wounds each survivor had, but I did find a study by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 4,122 patients who showed signs of life when they got to the hospital, over a few year period in Philadelphia, of both gunshot and knife wounds resulted in fatality rate of 33% for gunshot victims compared to 7.7% of knife victims.</p><p></p><p>There are other studies, like <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1993/10/05/knives-00000" target="_blank">this one</a>, that are more specialized like the mortality rate of being shot or stabbed in the abdomen (gun fatality is 3x as high as knife attacks)</p><p></p><p>I guess my point is that if you're going to use your logic in the OP to determine that guns should only do that little damage, then by the same logic, you'd have to put dagger damage at 1 point or less, since people survive knife attacks at a significantly higher rate than gun shot victims.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7554929, member: 15700"] People surviving several knife strikes is not an outlier. an outlier is the teenager in Brighton in 2016 suffering over 100 knife wounds (in case you're curious, the highest number of gunshot wounds to survive is 21, in 2010 in New York). I'd love to see your citation of where you came up with your first statistic. I can't find any study that was done for how many bullet wounds vs how many knife wounds each survivor had, but I did find a study by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 4,122 patients who showed signs of life when they got to the hospital, over a few year period in Philadelphia, of both gunshot and knife wounds resulted in fatality rate of 33% for gunshot victims compared to 7.7% of knife victims. There are other studies, like [URL="https://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1993/10/05/knives-00000"]this one[/URL], that are more specialized like the mortality rate of being shot or stabbed in the abdomen (gun fatality is 3x as high as knife attacks) I guess my point is that if you're going to use your logic in the OP to determine that guns should only do that little damage, then by the same logic, you'd have to put dagger damage at 1 point or less, since people survive knife attacks at a significantly higher rate than gun shot victims. [/QUOTE]
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