A friend of mine used to echo the knife comment, but with the substitution of "sword." And I don't think he'd ever even heard of Molly Ivins. Even if you take out the tongue-in-cheek running aspect, the argument has merit. It's also much harder to kill someone with a blade than with a firearm. It would definitely require more dedication to the idea, which would take out alot of questions in juries minds to the "malice aforethought" codicile in murder cases. And if a couple of teenagers show up to school with knives? The wrestling team could probably subdue them before the SWAT team was even alerted, and with only superficial injury.
The problem with guns is that they are easy. The problem with getting rid of guns is that we already have them. If the call goes out to get rid of guns, the responsible and conscience gun owners will be the first to give them up. Then will come the careless, the ignorant, and the irresponsible, pressured into it by their peers. Which will leave the guns in the hands of the stupid, the sociopathic, and the downright evil. It's a tricky mire to traverse.
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mishamish.livejournal.com at 01:37pm on 2007-02-01
The problem with guns is that they are easy. The problem with getting rid of guns is that we already have them. If the call goes out to get rid of guns, the responsible and conscience gun owners will be the first to give them up. Then will come the careless, the ignorant, and the irresponsible, pressured into it by their peers. Which will leave the guns in the hands of the stupid, the sociopathic, and the downright evil. It's a tricky mire to traverse.