When Guns Are Outlawed: A psychotherapist in an Upper East

Side office. A young woman working in a grocery store. A city bus

driver behind the wheel in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on a

lunchtime route. Each of these was featured last year in a

snapshot of murder in New York City, where authorities have long

been battling illegal firearms – and seeing a degree of success.

But these people were killed by knives, contributing to a

troubling statistic in homicides. In 2008, even as gun killings

fell, the number of killings committed with knives or other

cutting instruments rose 50 percent in New York

City, the Police Department said: to 125 from 83. Some other

large cities saw no such increase last year, and police officials

and experts are at a loss to explain what is either a new trend

or a spike (Shades of the United Kingdom?)

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