Through the past 10 years, a knife or another stab weapon was the most common murder weapon used in homicides in Norway. In 2023, in ** of the ** homicides registered, a knife or another stab weapon was the murder weapon. ** people were murdered by firearms the same year, the highest during the period under consideration.

In the period between 2011 and 2024, the number of homicide victims in Norway peaked in 2011, when *** people were murdered in the country. This includes the fatalities of the terrorist attack on July 22 that year. In the years thereafter, the number of homicide victims was usually between ** and **, but reached ** in 2024. Moreover, the balance between male and female victims was pretty even through the period considered.

Since 2012, a knife or another stab weapon was the most common murder weapons used in homicides in Norway. In 2024, in ** of the ** homicides registered, a knife or another stab weapon was the murder weapon. By comparison, the number of people murdered by firearms was lower.

There were public mass shootings in the United States in every year between 1998 and 2019, resulting in a total of almost 1,900 casualties. When compared with the number of victims of mass shootings in all other developed nations (based on UN specifications), the United States' figure is often higher than all of these countries combined. There were notable exceptions, such as the attacks in Paris on the evening of November 13. 2015, which resulted in 130 deaths and 416 injuries (the same year the Charlie Hebdo shooting killed 12 people and injured 11 more), the 2011 attacks in Oslo and Utøya, Norway and Liège, Belgium which had a combined casualty count of 240 due to gunfire. In the United States, the deadliest mass shooting in this time was the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017.