Always question the premise presented by communists, progressives. democrats, sociopaths and the mentally impaired.
People inclined to mug, rob, maim and kill other human beings have done so with box cutters, knives, axes, two-by-fours, bricks, cement blocks, crowbars, shovels, awls, knitting needles, poisons, explosives, and every other imaginable tool developed by mankind in the last 10,000 years.
Unless we intend to return to the stone age, and one by one outlaw every useful existing tool, and literally return to the stone age, we better lock up these dogmatic mental deficients. Most of them are in the profession to try to find a way to battle their personal devils... and invariably fail.
And then there's this...
How can we outlaw rocks?
Sweet. “the APA uses statistics that superficially tar the United States with extraordinary gun homicide rates compared to other countries.” The APA are experts at finding stats to support anything. The FDA does the same.