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Yes, and if there were no knives, maybe there would have been zero deaths. But for some reason a call to ban knives is never heard.

Calling for a ban on guns due to what is relatively a statistical anomaly, is kneejerk at best, and encroaching on individual rights at worst.

There is no call to blanket ban knives/blades because of their many basic and common uses.

However, many countries do have legislation knifes, sometimes outright banning certain blades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_legislation