[coloradan]

I bet that if the analysis were done with knives or lead pipes, that the results would be very much the same story as it is with guns. In which case, the entire gun angle is destroyed - unless one also wishes to get knives and lead pipes off the streets. How about the demographics of people killed with large chunks of asphalt? I bet that would be the same, too. But getting asphalt off the streets is going to be difficult.

[ArrogantBustard]

When I used to actually read Washington DC newspapers, I was (at first) surprised by the number of homicides committed with bare hands and shod feet. A typical crime report might include "Smith was arrested in connection with the stomping death of Jones last night in the 400 block of ..."

It's not the tools. It's the fools.