I tried to post this reply on Frank's letter regarding the same incident, but got the message that it was closed, SOOO I'll put it here! (He was asking why Hollywood only makes movies w/ guns, and not other "tools" with which murder can be committed.)
As has been mentioned on other threads before, people can use ANY tool they get their hands on to murder people (baseball bats, rat poison, forks, spoons, letter openers, crow bars, assault tunas, widgets, Ewoks and etc..,) Heck, here in TX a few years ago, a mother hacked her two sons to death with a kitchen knife! But I don't see "Kitchen-Knife Control Inc." popping up in the aftermath!
Or how about Susan Smith in SC who killed her kids by driving her car into the lake? Let's ban all cars as dangerous deadly weapons! (I'm sure they truly do cause more deaths annually than guns do.) Or better yet, ban lakes!
Heart Disease: the #1 killer in the US... Let's ban Crisco, Whoppers, Reese's, Salt, Oreos, etc... that'll solve the problemo!
I do think that the media et al, has glorified gun violence too much. They make the movies/shows, jump on the stories and such, that glorify violence. Yet anytime some wacko gets the notion to bump off a few people, as well as himself, they scream for retribution and the banning of all guns. How hypocritical!
I don't know if these wackos today commit their crimes with guns solely because of what is portrayed in the media, but I bet that it does play some part in it.
I could go on about this fer a long time, but I'll get off me soapbox now! my $.02
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[This message has been edited by Darthmaum (edited August 10, 1999).]