[cloudmountain]

Guns don't kill; people kill.

Before the invention of the gun people killed in a variety of ways:

knives
poison
walk the plank
hanging
pulled apart by horses
2 x 4, or something similar, in the back of the head
arson
strangulation
pushed: out of a window, off a cliff/boat, into quicksand, into a fire, in the way of horses, wagons, etc.
by a gladiator
by having to listen to Ethel Merman sing "There no business like...: oops, before their time

I think you've got the gist of it.

[Calvin Locke]

Guns don't kill; people kill.

I just happened to check out the heyjackass site today, and nearly 15% of the 77 homicides in ChiTown this year have been something other than guns - knives, or blunt force trauma.

[Turbo Pig]

Before the invention of the gun people killed in a variety of ways:

Before the black powder age, people that championed against the top weapon of the day usually ended up skewered or impaled by something pointy, spiky, and generally unpleasant.