He said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”
Me, I don't worry about strangers walking into my house and stabbing people. Because a stranger who walks into my house and tries to get something out of the cutlery drawer will have a couple of holes put in him by my friends, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson -- assuming I don't instead pull Mr. Remington out of the cabinet.
If you gave a 10 year old child one of these knives and a file, he could make the tip perfectly deadly, mount it on a spear, smash Piggy's glasses, and take the conch in about ten minutes.
What keeps people from murdering each other is not a lack of pointy things. You can kill someone perfectly dead with a hammer. You can kill someone perfectly dead with an electrical cord. You can kill someone perfectly dead with a pail of water. And even if you don't have those things, you can kill a person with your bare hands if you get ahold of their head and apply the proper amount of torque. If he's at the top of the stairs, give him a slight nudge and gravity will do the trick.
I suggest two better courses for my friends in Britain:
1. Cover the entire country with padding, put everyone in straightjackets, and insist that no one goes anywhere without proper supervision, or
2. Insist on something called "personal responsibility." A person may own weapons, but if he murders someone, he is hanged.
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