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>Hey, I'm not arguing about the dearth of reasonable sentencing in our so called 'justice' systems, but I'm having a real problem in trying to figure out why you feel that guns are no more dangerous than steak knives. It doesn't take digging in to obscure concepts to see how guns are so much more efficient in dealing out death. That you feel that makes no difference to the debate is what puzzles me. As Terry mentioned, when we start having a lot of drive by killings by thugs with pens, then maybe I'll start worrying about pens as weapons, but until then, guns are the weapon of choice for the garbage of society, and are so much more efficient than pens, that I'll keep my concerns right where they are.

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword :-)