Should I buy a sword?

[Jericho]

That sounds good, but compare the minuscule number of murders involving firearms here in the UK, where very few people own guns, with the much larger number of deaths, including some horrific mass shootings, involving firearms in the USA.

The UK also has some of the highest knife-homicide rates in Western Europe per-capita.

 

[lforrest]

The UK also has some of the highest knife-homicide rates in Western Europe per-capita.

Guns also even-up the odds a little, so that physical size and strength is no longer a huge advantage.