The CA murders, by a 22 year old man who had struck out with women, have renewed the calls for gun control. Before you buy into that argument, remember three of the seven people Elliot Roger killed he stabbed with a knife. Are you prepared to ban butcher, steak and paring knives? Require a license for knife ownership?
How about his BMW? A car is a quite satisfactory fatal weapon if driven into a crowd of people at some speed. The U.K. has strict handgun control, most murders there are done with a knife or bludgeon. Want to ban baseball or cricket bats?
The nice thing about Roger having a gun is that he took his own life, saving us the banality of his trial and the expense of boarding him for the rest of his miserable life.
