SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — If you think rifles are the number one killer, think again reports WICS TV.
According to the FBI, across the United States in 2018, there were: 1,515 deaths by knives or cutting instruments, 443 people were killed with hammers/clubs/other blunt objects, 672 people were killed from fists/feet/’personal weapons’ compared to the 297 killed by (any) rifles.
The number of people killed by rifles declined from 2017 to 2018. In 2017, 400 people were killed by rifles and nearly four times as many people were stabbed to death than killed with rifles.
