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Read my lips, “Guns don’t kill, people do!” How clear does it have to be before the government realizes that the average American needs their gun for protection and not to murder. Yes, some average Americans–or those who would pass for average America–do kill but under some of the strangest circumstances and for even more strange reasons; however, those people also use knives, baseball bats, poison, and vehicles when there is no gun available or when they wish to make the death look like an accident. How one could accidently whack one’s self in the head several times and with enough force that it would knock them off their feet, is beyond comprehension, but it happens. If the CDC wishes to eliminate “gun-ownership” because the gun is unhealthy, then perhaps they should make automobiles more difficult to purchase and issue a test that would define mental stability as well, because there are–without fear of contradiction–people that should never be allowed to get behind the wheel.

The CDC is studying the effects of alchol and gun relationships to injuries and death. Woohoo, how about alcohol and it’s relationship to highway massacre? Or maybe, alcohol and it’s relationship to deaths by drowning, falling, or accidently maiming another human being with a plethora of weapons not related to the gun? Let me think; you drink a 6-pack, fall off the toilet, and become irreversibly wedged between the toilet and the wall…hopefully, you will have a brain-cancer causing cell phone nearby, or you’re left in “said position” until a good samaritan comes along to help you out of your uncomfortable and limb threatening predicament. They ban cigarettes in public places, due to health hazards, but they allow people to become polluted in public. Talk about your health hazard, especially in a French restaurant where Cherries Jubilee might be served. The ratio of head to table injuries increases with each sip of a good wine.

Our forefathers did, indeed, invent a better weapon and not for less reason than the average “big-city” dweller might find to purchase a gun. They needed a better way to insure that the target, once hit, would not find a renewed energy and continue to attack. God, bless them for giving us the weapon by which many lives have been saved. The fact that the same weapon does contribute to death is unfortunate, but rarely is the trigger pulled unless the user intends to kill his or her target. Sometimes the situation is self-defense, and sometimes it’s murder, but the gun does not activate by itself and therefore is no more deadly than the vehicle that has the less-experienced driver. People kill and they will always find a manner in which to accomplish the feat, so the gun becomes redundant in matters of injury or death. With a little luck, the CDC will not discover that too many people are injured by the simpler non-weapons, such as the table knife, fork, or spoon. It’s difficult to imagine how the laws of etiquette would be re-written to accomodate the dainty art of eating soup with one’s hands.

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