Actually, that might account for a certain percentage of the statistics!

Perhaps you should try fixing them before the gun. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Fix the people and the problem will solve itself.

Oh no, not again. “Pocket knives don’t kill people, people kill people”.

Considering it’s a lot more difficult to kill somebody with a pocket knife, perhaps we should start exchanging guns for pocket knives? Would save a few lives (several thousand, maybe).

But have you ever wondered why other countries, with strict gun laws, have fewer gun related deaths in their statistics? Do you think the people there have been “fixed”? Oh, perhaps we outside of the US of A are smarter than you USians after all…

So you ate saying there are 10,000 idiots I understand. Perhaps you should try fixing them before the gun. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Fix the people and the problem will solve itself. Cheers!

P.S. cheers is Christian code for God Bless.

Also, do pencils and pocketknifes have functions other than putting a piece of metal through something else at lethal velocity and boosting the ego of their owners?

Because if not then there’s no fucking comparison, now is there?

You could kill somesomeone with a pencil or pocket knife yet we do not hear people saying we need fewer pocket knives or rather more pocket knife laws.

Could you accidentally kill someone standing twenty feet away on the other side of a wall with a pencil or a pocket knife?

Bee, typically the kids who learn from books never get first hand experience which is a shame. I read both to & with my kids every night in case you thought they were missing out on reading. In terms of family activities how about camping, fishing, hiking, hockey, baseball, soccer, cub scouts, RC car racing, biking, in-line skating, church, bible time, atving, hunting & target shooting. I agree with a pro safety campaign. This would seem to me the best way to appeal to largest group. I also don’t need to hear some activist telling me guns are unsafe when they have never held or shot a gun in their life. Guns are not dangerous. Only the people who use them improperly make them dangerous. You could kill somesomeone with a pencil or pocket knife yet we do not hear people saying we need fewer pocket knives or rather more pocket knife laws. As it is I already have to remember to place my pocket knife in my suitcase when flying otherwise I am considered a criminal and I am talking about a small single blade knife. Pocket knife carrying stems back to be scouting days and being prepared.

To me, that just sounds like marketing, but maybe I’m just cynical and jaded.

Does anyone know where the “22x more likely” figure comes from?