Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for December 06, 2023

What about the wrench, candlestick and rope? Or is it the lead piping in the library?

I don’t understand why they use bookends. Very few fit comfortably in your hand and most are too flimsy to do much damage.

She has a point:

Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children

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The leading indicator that one will be shot by a gun is owning a gun.

Oh, no no no, it’s either a Fireplace Poker or a Heavy Statuette… ☺

Having a gun in the home increases the likelihood that someone in the home is killed with a gun.

In this age of Kindle and other E-readers, a bookend is a vanishing species.

In 2010 (the last year the FBI has published figures for), the US had 358 people murdered with rifles; 745 were murdered with “personal weapons”.

What, you ask, are “personal weapons”? “Hands, fists, feet, etc.”. Yes, almost twice as many victims beaten & kicked to death as shot with rifles (all rifles, not just the dreaded black ones).

Oh – and 1704 were stabbed to death.

So let’s ban those AR-15s and solve the problem!

The important implication is that his 11-year-old daughter might murder him.

But, more guns make us safer, right?

Especially, more assault* rifles make us really safer.

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*Style. Yeah, I know. NRA gets to define everything related to guns.