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In my article Guns kill people and spoons made Rosie Fat I noted that "If guns kill people, then ... spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat." Before any of my readers object that if people couldn't get their hands on a gun then fewer people would commit suicide or get murdered; please consider the following:

• Thousands of people in India commit suicide with ceiling fans each year ; the lack of guns not diminishing suicides one iota (see my article Guns Do Not Kill People Ceiling Fans Do).
• There are more school massacres in China (none committed with a gun) than in the US despite the absence of a gun violence culture. The lack of guns not diminishing the rampage against children one iota (see my article Meat Cleavers, Hammers, and Knives Need to Be Banned in China).
• Assault rifles are safer than hammers. The FBI's 2011 annual "Crime in the United States" report tells us that more people that year were murdered with hammers than with rifles including assault rifles (see my article Jim Carrey is an Idiot).
• As more guns have become available in the US, there has been a corresponding drop in the murder rate (see my article Guns Have Nothing to Do with a Country's Murder Rate).
• Gun free zones lead to more deaths. The recent massacre at the Washington D.C’s Navy Yard would have had almost a dozen fewer deaths had the Department of Defense in 1992 not issued a directive (1) restricting the carrying of weapons to personnel involved in law enforcement or security and which Clinton should have vetoed (see my article MOre Guns - not fewer is the Answer to West Virginia Massacre).

But here is proof that guns do not kill people in a letter to the editor:

The Post-Standard - Syracuse, 22 Feb 2013, Readers keep gun control debate going: Your letters

To The Editor:

Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my 30.06 right in the doorway. I gave it five shells to go in the clip, and noticing that it had no legs, even placed it in a wheelchair to help it get around. I then left it alone and went about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street shoveled the snow, a girl walked her dog down the street, the trash man picked up the trash, and quite a few cars went by.

After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there in the wheelchair, right where I had left it. It hadn't rolled itself outside. It certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had been presented to do so. In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself.

You can imagine my surprise, with all the media hype about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people. Either the media is wrong, and it’s the misuse of guns by people that kills people, or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.

All right, I'm off to check on my spoons. I hear they’re making people fat.

Donald Sykes
Baldwinsville

Q.E.D.