I see that in yesterday’s Daily News, someone thought he had a conclusive argument in favor of the right to keep guns in our cars on other people’s property: Even if they ban guns, people can still bring in baseball bats and knives!

This is an old, silly argument by the NRA and similar gun-worshippers: If government takes away the guns, people will just find other weapons.

Quite possibly true. But there’s a reason we hear about the Virginia Tech shooting or the Columbine shooting and not the Virginia Tech knifing or the Colubmine clubbing—the chance someone with a blade or a blunt instrument could go on that kind of killing spree without a gun and not get brought down is well, nil.

If knives and clubs were as effective as these gun-nuts seem to think, then all we’d have to do is walk around carrying a baseball bat and we’d be able to defend ourselves from crazies like the Virginia Tech guy. But the pro-gun forces all insist that without guns we’d be helpless—doesn’t it occur to them that cuts both ways?

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