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Guns aren’t the problem

October 13, 2015 by Guest Post

My gun walked into a school and wandered down the hall. I watched it from afar, wondering where it would go.
My doctor walked down the hospital corridor to my room to prescribe the same medication and a treatment that killed my friend last week. Let’s BAN the doctors!
The bear in the woods where I was hiking left me alone this time. It was occupied with berries. It might have killed me. Let’s BAN the bears from my hiking trails. Or should we ban hiking?
The robot turned against me the other day and told me it would not clean my house. Let’s BAN the robots.
My knife jumped off my counter the other day. It sliced my guest; I yelled at it to stop! It would not listen. Let’s BAN knives. Or should we ban the guests?
The rocks on the highways crack my windshield from time to time. Let’s BAN the rocks.
Life is full of risks. Do we ban everything because it might harm something?
It is better to have a gun and never need it, than it is to need it and not have it.
There are better ways to solve these problems!
Chris Martin
Hamilton

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