Not just kids, adults kill too. Yet to see a knife attack anyone.But then knives don't kill people - kids do!
I dare say any of the implements you describe could be USED to kill someone, a common or garden HB pencil could be USED to kill someone. The item, left to its own devices would not kill.And yet, if the child had found an unattended electric drill, instead of a gun, he wouldn't have killed his sister.
If an angry drunk or a street thug had reached into his pocket, and found a Walkman instead of a knife, he wouldn't have killed someone.
So the ready availability of weapons is a factor facilitating murder.
you'd find it very much harder to kill someone with an HB pencil.
Harder, yes, but still possible. A gun on the other hand, wont go out of its way to kill you, it needs input from someone, & that someone would be the killer, intentionally or not.Yours is a foolish point.
It would take long time to grind the graphite down to powder and persuade someone to ingest it.Harder, yes, but still possible.
JohnD & his posse must have part time jobs as BBC or Yahoo! journalists, both companies relish a bit of sensationalism .Seems like another LWR posting a thread with a misleading title once more
It would take long time to grind the graphite down to powder and persuade someone to ingest it.
Or maybe we could use the wood in a pencil to start a fire so they 'self' combust.
Or perhaps we could beat them over the head with it.
Yes, I can just picture little Tyler playing with an HB pencil and all of a sudden......it starts writing and little Britney - is still alive.Harder, yes, but still possible.
So who is to blame? The kid, the gun or the gun owner for being reckless in leaving the gun accessible ?However, little Tyler was playing with a gun.
Sky news boyo. How many children have accidently shot and killed another person in the UK lately? How does that compare to gun totin' USofA?BBC or Yahoo!