Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?

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For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns are.

This is quite simply not true. Shooting someone center-mass at fifty feet is far easier than stabbing someone at fifty feet, and more likely to be fatal, because unlike knives, bullet impacts impart shock-waves the in themselves can cause great injuries.. And you real cannot fend off a bullet, while you can certainly have a chance to fend off a knife-wielding assailant.

This is simply you talking out of your ass.