On Dec 5, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
(With tongue firmly in cheek, one hopes)
Lest we forget that swords can cut with two
edges...........................
The greatest effect firearms have had upon history is to remove the
advantage the large and powerful have always had over the small and
weak.
But if you really fear firearms and have no faith in your fellow
humans, you should rid your kitchen of large cutting
blades........just in case you piss off someone in your family and
happen to go to sleep at an inopportune moment.<G>
I know you're making a little joke, but the equivalence of knives and
guns as weapons just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Even your own
"guns as equalizer" argument goes against it: the small and weak have
always had access to large cutting blades, but the strong and
powerful can use 'em better.
Guns are qualitatively different than knives (cleavers, swords,
spears, pikes and the rest). With a gun, "you just point and click",
as a character said in a play. Guns are a remote control for someone
else's life. Knives are proximity weapons, and even more than guns
require considerable skill and strength to be deadly. Ever heard of a
drive-by knifing? Or someone hiding in the bushes outside a
schoolyard with a knife and killing a dozen kids? Remember when John
Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo knifed 10 people in Virginia? Me
neither. Knifing someone is such a grisly business that not too many
people have the stomach for it. Pretty much just the odd NFL star...
Dave
PS: When cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have cars.
They are licensed, registered and highly regulated. When will the
American Automobile Association finally get off its lazy ass and
follow the lead of the National Rifle Association in lobbying to
prevent unnecessary government intrusion into our freedom!
They can have my Honda when they pry my cold, dead fingers from
around the stickshift!
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