I fail to see the logic in a sentence from a Wednesday letter to the editor headlined "Taking away guns won't take away the criminals." The sentence reads: "Take away a murderer's gun, he will kill with a knife. Take away his knife, he will kill with a rock. Take away his rock, he will kill with his bare hands."
Imagine the gruesome image of all those students in Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus, where more than 30 students were fatally shot last week, huddling behind and beneath their desks to escape the swipes of perpetrator Seung-Hui Cho's knives.
Imagine, if you can, the even more repulsive situation of Cho reaching into a sack of rocks again and again, or of his beating and strangling 30-plus victims while all those shocked onlookers stood by, seemingly helpless in the presence of such "indomitable" weapons.
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