And when were doctors considered the experts on crime legislation?
It happened in recent years when US pediatricians started asking kids if there's a gun in the house.
A partial list of other things that can puncture human flesh as easily as a knife:
Pen
Pencil
Coat Hanger
Screwdriver
Pie spatula
Meat thermometer
Arrow
Sharpened stick
How could you forget the ubiquitous weapon of Crime Fiction, the letter opener?
I've got a radical idea. How about instead of limiting the tools we use, we expect our schools to teach respect for each other and for the tools that intelligent minds have created? Wouldn't that be a novel approach?
Respect was what I was supposed to give to my mother. My mother said so.
Teachers can say or "teach" anything, but I had the same parents throughout school.
* makes more notes for memoir *
They can't even teach algebra, Don. How the hell do you expect them to teach morality?
That little respect each other thing is where too many educators fall down; I substitute taught this past school year and most of the kids actually liked me. The reason was that I treat them like fellow human beings and give them respect. One of my best moments was when a young student (high school) told me that she respected me because I respect students, adding that most teachers don't. Young people know and too often I saw students treated like felons or second class citizens simply because of their age.
So Britain bans automatics, and criminals kill people with semi-automatics. So Britain bans semi-automatics, and criminals kill people with hand guns. So Britain bans hand-guns, and criminals kill people with knives. So Britain bans knives, and criminals...
So whatever happened to al the automatics, semiautomatics and hand guns that made them undesirable to criminals in Britain? Did they search the house of every
citizen criminal in the country and confiscate them all?
I think Chris Rock had the best gun control solution. Don't outlaw anything, just jack the price of ammo up to $5000 / round. "I'm gonna go get a night job and come back in a couple of months and kill your ass."
I can collect a few lead weights from car wheels off the side of the road, make some gunpowder and build my own bullets in less than two months. If I could sell them for $5,000 each, that's exactly what I'd do.
Don't tell Chris Rock.