Random Ramblings

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything (in fact, June is the first month in the last 3 years where I’ve actually missed a month, I believe…), but I noticed this on CNN.com this morning.

Knife violence in the UK

Now this amused me, believe it or not. Not because people were getting stabbed, but, in fact, because anytime I get into a debate over gun control and whether or not it reduced violence, one of the main arguments I get is that “If guns aren’t available, people can’t kill each other in a fit of rage.” And yet here we have jolly old England, model for gun control, and what’s happening there? A rise of knife violence in 24 hours. So what, now we start taking away the knives from the people, too?

The sad truth is, criminals can get to be sadistically ingenious when it comes to killing. Take away the knive, and the road rage incidents will probably involve tire irons. People can use baseball bats to beat each others’ heads in (or have we not seen “The Untouchables”?). Criminals can always find a way to kill, no matter how hard you try to deescalate the problem by removing the tools they’d use to do it.

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