There are more knife attacks in London in a month than assault rifle deaths in the US in a year

link to original reddit post by /u/PitaJ

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I looked up knife crime stats for London.

London recorded the highest rate of 179 offences involving a knife per 100,000 population 2Fin 2019/20

Assuming that's for 24 months and London has a population of 8.9 million.

179 * 8,900,000 / 100,000 / 24 = 663 knife crimes / month

Source: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/

In 2017, all rifles accounted for just 403 deaths in the US.

Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11.xls

In fact rifles would have to kill 60% more people per year since 2017 to close the gap.