Guns are the only inanimate objects blamed for crime

June 2, 6:34 AMCleveland Gun Rights ExaminerDaniel White

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It seems nearly every time someone is killed with a gun, there is someone waiting in the wings to blame the gun and not the person pulling the trigger. If there's a robbery, we need to get guns off the street. If there's a murder-suicide, we need to get guns out of the home. If there's a school shooting, we need to get guns out of the schools. Gun control is always the answer.

The gun grabbers are fanatical in their beliefs. There are no shades of gray, guns are bad and they'll ban them one at a time if they have to. Appoint an anti-gun judge to the Supreme Court and they'll applaud her "narrow interpretation" and the Second Amendment take the opportunity to denigrate those who support the Constitution as the "activist majority."

Yet when any other inanimate object is the weapon of choice for committing a crime there is not a peep from any of them.

This past Friday, two Cleveland men allegedly deliberately drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people outside of an Avon Lake bar, hitting three people. Had they driven past and fired a gun instead, the Brady Campaign would be all over the story.

Sunday morning, Lorain police responded to a complaint about excessive noise and underage drinking at a party. Several officers were injured in the drunken brawl that ensued, yet the Million Mom March isn't there calling for an alcohol ban. I guess they can learn their lesson from the failed Prohibition scheme but not from the failed "Assault Weapons Ban."

Yesterday, a man went on a stabbing spree in Brecksville, leaving one man dead and three more seriously injured. Cleveland.com merely reported the details. Had it been a shooting instead, there probably would have been editorializing about the runaway gun culture and much philosophizing by Toby Hoover of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. Apparently no other form of violence is worth a whole coalition.

Whenever this point is brought up, the anti-gun crowd will always be quick to point out that knives, automobiles, feet and fists weren't made to kill people. Well, guns are made simply to propel a projectile. It is up to the person behind the trigger to decide where that projectile goes.

Blaming the object is never going to solve the issue of violence, and taking away defensive firearms only disarms the law abiding. Until the underlying causes of crime are meaningfully discussed and addressed, all the gun control in the world isn't going to solve the problem.