Heck, we might as well Fisher-Price the whole damned planet...

On the other hand, we could just round them all up, the Green Peacers, the Global Warming Luddites, the Vegans, the Pacifists, liberals, the PETA types, the gun grabbers, the enviro-whackos, the tree huggers and force them to agree with each other for once. They'll start killing each other off within an hour or so.

Natural Selection in its purest form. Peace, love and harmony returns. Free beer for everyone.

My work here is done.

Home cooking needs to be banned. It requires demonstrably deadly tools, such as knives, but provides opportunities for poisoning. State cafeterias would provide a clean, safe place to eat.

Rocks......for obvious reason
Dirt........suffocation by burying alive
Water.....drowning
Food.......use to hide posion or can be spoiled
Gravity....throw someone off a building

Liberals....stupidity kills....okay, this one isn't a bad idea.

The dreaded flatus, of course - they don't call it "silent but deadly" for nothing!

Plus, it contributes to global warmening!!1!1!!

Gun control means being able to hit your target.

In that sense I am all for gun control.

I'm not sure a gun would have worked in this case. It might be too hard for a grandma to kill her grandson. Not saying no grandma could kill a grandchild, but it's not something anyone can accurately predict until they are in that position.

That said, those who choose to disarm themselves have already decided they won't or can't use deadly force under any circumstance against any perpetrator to protect themselves or their family. I prefer to defer the final decision on using deadly force until I know who I need to kill and for what purpose. I can always decide not to use a weapon, but if I don't have one handy I can't choose to use one.

The mother-of-six started campaigning against gun crime when her son Danny was shot dead in 2002.

The grandson of prominent anti-gun campaigner Pat Regan has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing her to death. [...] The 20-year-old man was being held on suspicion of murder, police said. It is thought he had been arrested earlier in the day over another stabbing.

Sharp pasties that Madonna had several tours ago, they could poke somebody's eyes out.

This is just such a tragedy... why, if only she'd had some way of defending herself!!

Nothing like finding enjoyment in someone else's death, eh Cassy? A bit of a contrast from your outrage earlier today though, isn't it? I guess it all depends on who gets killed (death of marine in Iraq = not funny; death of grandma in England = hilarious irony!).

Stay classy, Cassy.

Why don't you spend five seconds comparing murder rates, by firearm or otherwise, between countries with restrictive gun policies (Scandinavia, England, Canada, Japan) and the United States? Finding an anecdote every few days or weeks of a defenseless person being gunned down does not speak to the overall question of whether or not gun laws are too restrictive, though it sure is fun to wave the article around like a scalp, isn't it? For f**k's sake, somebody was murdered, you ghoul.

If you sincerely believe that homicide rates in the U.S. would plummet if everyone walked around with a sidearm, then you're hopelessly retarded.

We should outlaw spoons also, as they will hurt more

hyperbolist, you can find those stats yourself, in just a few minutes, by comparing gun deaths in U.S. cities with restricted gun control (Washington D.C., Cleveland,) and cities with concealed carry (Dallas, Denver.) The F.B.I. provides all those stats on their website.

Of course if one of us patient gunowners did your homework for you, you'd ignore our work and scream and rant about guns, because logic and reason are not where you operate. So I'm not going to waste my time and yours.

Homocide rates in the U.S would plummet if everyone walked around with a sidearm. That is the truth, and the more states that adopt concealed carry the more obvious it is.

If only she had been able to gun down her own grandson everything would be right with the world. Poetic justice, huh Cassy?

I pity you.

Yeah, Dallas has the ideal murder rate. Not Amsterdam, or Stockholm, or Tokyo, or Seoul, or Montreal...

Nice benchmark (D.C.). Why not Baghdad? Guns don't make people safe. Guns create a perception of safety when everybody has resigned themselves to everybody else maybe carrying one.

Rest assured Her Grandson respected Her opinion and used a steak knife..

Short and sweet comment. Good!

Sgt.:
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit...

All:
We done the passion fruit.

A bit of Monty Python

Hyperbolist:

"Guns don't make people safe."

Neither do laws. Oddly enough, the criminal doesn't care about them. And there's no magical number where another law suddenly renders the whole concept self-enforcing.

Criminals are always looking for an advantage over their victim. Making sure the victim is disarmed is a very good one.

Guns create a perception of safety when everybody has resigned themselves to everybody else maybe carrying one.

Now, how could one begin to argue with this logic?

"But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law--men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims--then money becomes its creators' avenger." Ayn Rand

"Guns create a perception of safety"

Too bad grandma didn't have that perception.

"This is just such a tragedy... why, if only she'd had some way of defending herself!!"

What a pitiful, petty and childish thing to say. Stay classy, Wizbang.

Guns don't kill people, crazies with steak knives do.

So are we confusing cause and effect here. Maybe there have been two murders in this family because they are wackadoodle people. That might explain the most recent victims position on gun control.

Biting Sarcasm

Yea, see this link to see how bunches of people owning a gun will turn the place into the wild west!

We read "Snow Treasure" this spring. (We read books out loud as a family in the evenings.) Snow Treasure is based on the true story of the brave Norwegians who smuggled gold out of occupied Norway.

We just finished "Number the Stars" where brave Dane smuggled Jews to Sweden before the Nazis could kill them.

Both brave little countries were unarmed in the face of the Nazis. They had no navies, no armies, no guns. Thus they were abused, tortured, humiliated and murdered.

We should never forget what happened to those people. When an "anti gun activist" is murdered with a knife, we should never fail to point this out, as Cassy did, to remember what happens to gentle people who believe they are safe if they act like sheep.

Yeah, I'm invoking Godwin's law. Whatever. Sometimes you gotta invoke the law.

Czechoslovakia and France and Poland had a lot of guns and they did just fine in WW II, so I see your point.

Lots of developed countries with heavily restrictive gun laws have so many fewer gun homicides than the United States that it would be insane not to explore the reasons for this at a sociological level.

A well-armed society is a polite society.

Regards...

You liberals like to spew your enlightened wisdom of "can't we all just get a long" but that pesky 2nd amendment gets in your way every time. Thank GOD for our founding fathers who had the wisdom to know honest citizens need to be armed. ww

In Japan, where gun ownership is almost nil, the suicide rate is extraordinarily high. Wonder why?

Because in Japan, if a man kills his kids, then his wife, then himself, they are all listed as suicides. Hey, presto, no homicides here.

I love statistics. They are so fun to play with. The fact remains that in places where guns are plentiful in the hands of citizens the homicide rate is extremely low. In the United States our overall homicide rates are high because of our lawless, gun-restricted inner cities, perfect microcosms of the world the leftists want to impose on all of us.

Now its they hadnt banned guns this antigun activst would be alive today the single most irony KNIFE CONTROL,15 DAY WAITING PERDIOD FOR THE PUCHASE OF A KNIFE and WHAT ABOUT DONNA DEES THOMAS and another MILLION MOM MARCH FOR MORE KNIFE CONTROL LAWS

You're full of it, Frazetta Girl:

The fact remains that in places where guns are plentiful in the hands of citizens the homicide rate is extremely low.

That "fact" does not remain. I live in Canada. We have a lot of guns. (My dad has a cabinet full of them! Likes shooting clay pigeons! He's a very boring man.) But our gun homicide rates are far lower than yours, even in our inner cities. (Toronto does not compare to Philadelphia/D.C./Atlanta/Baltimore/New Orleans/etc.) Our gun laws are more restrictive than yours. Korea experiences almost no gun violence, and their laws are far more restrictive than ours and yours. Do you think their society would be even safer if every man who finishes his mandatory military service was then issued a sidearm to carry around?

Is an unarmed civilian thereby a dishonest civilian, WildWillie? Or an irresponsible one? You might very well be a refined, civilized person, but from what you write on the internetz, you sure come across as a reactionary hick.

Hyperbolist, do your own research. It's all there for you but you don't want to look because you know you'll be proven wrong. And I'm not doing it for you.

We have the God-given right to bear arms in this country -- not granted by any government, but enshrined in our Bill of Rights as something the government cannot take from us. The reason for it is clear, as well as all the stats that prove how positive and beneficial it is.

A bow and arrows have been used to kill people a long time before guns were invented, yet these weapons have not been banned.

Guess I will have to hide my bow and arrows from the next phase of violence crackdown. That is the next thing that will be on the hit list.

We have the God-given right to bear arms in this country -- not granted by any government, but enshrined in our Bill of Rights as something the government cannot take from us.

What an incredibly stupid thing to write. You don't understand our Constitution at all.

Just think of all the money saved in court costs if potential victims blew away their attackers.

Mantis, you're either not an American.... or you've been sadly subjected to a poor public education.

The Bill of Rights is not a list of rights granted to the people by the government, but a list of rights the government cannot infringe upon. These rights are "self-evident", in other words, they are granted by God and not by any court, law, or person. They cannot be taken away.

This is why America is the greatest country on earth, in the history of earth. We the People, baby.

And the Second Amendment, as someone said once, is simply the essence of: "And we mean it!"