Looks like we’re going to have to ban hammers

By Randa Wag­ner, Editor -

On Mon­day an arti­cle by the Asso­ci­ated Press caught my eye, Florida man accused of killing neigh­bor with a ham­mer. Seems a 28-yr.-old Tampa-Bay area man attacked his neigh­bor with a ham­mer and has been charged with sec­ond degree murder.

You know what this means, right? The gov­ern­ment will have to ban hammers.

The ham­mer killed the neigh­bor, you see. The man hold­ing the ham­mer is far less respon­si­ble for the crime than the metal and wood object. After all, when peo­ple use guns to kill, the gov­ern­ment wants to tighten gun laws. Nev­er­mind the fact the per­pe­tra­tor is not usu­ally a respon­si­ble gun owner with per­mits and firearms train­ing. The nut-cases out there who use semi-automatic weapons to mow down chil­dren in schools or peo­ple in shop­ping malls are typ­i­cally folks with seri­ous psy­cho­log­i­cal issues.

You can bet your bot­tom dol­lar the gov­ern­ment will use this last tragedy to ban pri­vate own­er­ship of guns. (It’s all part of a big­ger plan, folks.)

What the big boys in Wash­ing­ton for­get (or choose to ignore) is crim­i­nals always man­age to get their hands on weapons and carry them. Respon­si­ble, sane cit­i­zens aren’t sup­pose to carry them into stores, busi­ness or schools but, any sanity-challenged per­son can — and will. I’ll never for­get the news story years ago of a man who walked into a McDonald’s and spent an hour method­i­cally exe­cut­ing peo­ple. He took his time, walk­ing about, talk­ing to the folks before he killed them. Had just ONE per­son in that restau­rant been car­ry­ing a hand­gun, over a dozen peo­ple might not have died.

Peo­ple have choked to death on chicken — should we ban that? Peo­ple die of alco­hol poi­son­ing, or drown while they are drunk. Hmmm… makes alco­hol seem pretty dan­ger­ous, doesn’t it? Amer­i­cans die in tragic car acci­dents every day because some­one is not dri­ving respon­si­bly or chooses to com­mit sui­cide by dri­ving head-on into another vehi­cle… maybe we should all ride bicy­cles. Cars, after all, can be used to run peo­ple over on side­walks or be loaded with explo­sives and det­o­nated in crowded areas. If we get rid of all the cars (except for gov­ern­ment offi­cials, of course), that can’t hap­pen any­more, right?

The same day the Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary School killings hap­pened, a man with a knife in Henan province in China slashed 22 chil­dren and one adult out­side an ele­men­tary school. It was China’s worst such inci­dent in more than a year.

Won­der if they will enact leg­is­la­tion to ban kitchen knives in Asia.

Posted by Randa Wagner on Dec 18 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.