Driver hits people in Manhattan; multiple deaths

[Court Jester]

You can kill with a shoe lace. They teach it in the Marine Corps.

Is it easier to pull a trigger or strangle someone with a shoelace?

Well, to be quite honest, it would depend on the situation. In the off chance of close combatants in a city setting in Afghanistan (or the like), probably much safer to go with the shoe lace, a knife to the lung, or the sharp corner of a rock to the skull to be honest.

It's all in the end result and question applies to any of the tools in either situation (which no one is willing to answer)

Is the problem that needs addressed an issue that stands with the individual, the easy of getting a shoe lace/rock/knife/gun, or is it the fault of the shoe lace/knife/gun manufacturer or possibly the home owner that leaves deadly rocks laying about?

Pick the root cause and support you choice.