[QUOTE="Captain Haddock"]London, Population 8.674 million 9000 stabbings a year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36411782
US population 322,761,807, Deaths by firearm 13,286 (2015)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34996604
From the same BBC article: "Earlier this week, the Met said it was called to more than 9,000 knife crime incidents in London in the year ending April 2016."
Are you mixing up the term "knife crime incident" with stabbing? Would being held at gunpoint be the same as being shot?