Mass Murders Can Happen Even Without Guns

By

Mitchell Gray

Gun control advocates love to throw up the numbers of people killed by firearms every year as proof that “guns are bad.” They believe that by denying people their God given right to defend themselves with the most effective tool available they will save lives. In the wake of the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University killings the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun groups are on the war path again. Using the tragic deaths of the victims of these two shootings they are attempting to further deny people their right to self-defense through emotional pleas that more guns means more mass killings. It is sort of funny (not ha ha funny) how reality once again proves them wrong.

Recently in Japan a man on a murder mission drove his car into a crowd of people and then proceeded to stab 17 people killing seven people. The attacker Tomohiro Kato is reported to have slammed a rented truck into a crowd of pedestrians, jumped out and started stabbing the people he hit with the truck. Then he began running around the crowd stabbing other people screaming as he thrust his knife in to his unsuspecting victims. But this is not an isolated incident. According to an Associated Press article March saw eight people stabbed with one of them dying. In 2001 a mentally deranged man ran into an elementary school and stabbed and killed eight children.

Of course we can’t really believe this happened. After all mass killings only happen with guns right? Gun control advocates declare that guns are responsible for crime. To stop the killings we have to get rid of the guns. Gun rights advocates know that people are responsible for crime and guns are used to save lives. The only reason the Kato was stopped was because there just happened to be a cop around with a gun. If someone else in that crowd had had a gun perhaps seven people would still be alive right now.

Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/japan.attack.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview