Xavier Thoughts: News that isn't New

Sunday, June 08, 2008

When guns are banned, mass murderers will find other tools. More here.

Unfortunately, the victims will have a harder time fighting back.

Ed Skinner said...: Knives are being banned in Britain as well. See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364022,00.html for the latest.
The Tokyo story wasn't clear on how many were attacked with the knife versus the attacker's automobile.
If these countries want to be completely safe, they'll obviously have to ban cars as well as knives, ice picks and scissors, screwdrivers and hammers (to say nothing of power tools!), pens and pencils, the sale of sheet metal at Home Depot for duct work (nasty, nasty, nasty stuff!), 5 lb bags of ice (which become rock hard if allowed to slightly thaw and are then refrozen), ... ...
Hopefully somewhere along the way, people will decide to talk about individual responsibility including taking care of yourself and, if called upon, being able to protect yourself from attack.; 1:24 PM