"I" Care about the type of murder!!!
If a guy comes at me with a knife or baseball bat I've still got a shot at taking the guy or getting away.
Not if your talking about "the type of murder". If its murder someone is dead. If your the victim, then your dead whether a knife, or a gun, or a club, or poison or whatever was used.
If you had the shot at taking the guy down or getting away, and it worked, then it wasn't a murder, and wouldn't be recorded in the murder statistics.
Statistics on actual murders, the kind with dead victims, who didn't take out their attacker first, or get away, went down by a larger percentage in the US.
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Australia is a generally peaceful country with a 2014 murder rate of 1.0 victims per 100,000 persons and an overall homicide rate, including manslaughter, of 1.8. In 2000 the Australian Institute of Criminology reported "the homicide rate for Australia has stayed remarkably constant. The highest rate recorded over the last 11 years was 2 per 100,000 and the lowest rate was 1.7 per 100,000." So in the intervening years, they've basically seen a continuation of the "modest decline" referred to in the academic assessment cited above.
By contrast, without Australia's confiscation policy, the United States has seen its murder (including nonnegligent manslaughter) rate drop from 9.3 homicides per 100,000 U.S. residents in 1992 to 4.7 in 2011 and decline further, to 4.5 per 100,000 in 2014, the last year for which full data is available. During this time, the number of firearms in civilian hands increased by roughly 50 percent, to an estimated 300 million.
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