Dal Wolf, Naples
Tools of foolishness
I read with interest the article about universal gun registration in the letters to the editor in Thursday’s edition of the Daily News.
The letter did not go far enough in the effort to register weapons!
It is known that baseball bats, hammers and even screwdrivers cause more violent deaths each year than do handguns in the hands of their rightful owners. Should we then not register those weapons?
We could even place restrictions on the number of blows possible by those weapons. A baseball bat would only be able to be swung one time each 30 seconds without an automatic timer being reset. A hammer could be set to only administer two or three blows without being reset.
This might be unhandy for a carpenter, but then he might be allowed a special dispensation. There could even be a special level of licensing for tack hammers, carpenter hammers and sledge hammers. Screwdrivers could be adjusted to only function in a rotational motion.
The problem is that any of the above weapons, in the hands of someone bent on a violent action would be worthless, as would a universal licensing of all firearms by the federal government.
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I read with interest the article about universal gun registration in the letters to the editor in Thursday’s edition of the Daily News.
The letter did not go far enough in the effort to register weapons!
It is known that baseball bats, hammers and even screwdrivers cause more violent deaths each year than do handguns in the hands of their rightful owners. Should we then not register those weapons?
We could even place restrictions on the number of blows possible by those weapons. A baseball bat would only be able to be swung one time each 30 seconds without an automatic timer being reset. A hammer could be set to only administer two or three blows without being reset.
This might be unhandy for a carpenter, but then he might be allowed a special dispensation. There could even be a special level of licensing for tack hammers, carpenter hammers and sledge hammers. Screwdrivers could be adjusted to only function in a rotational motion.
The problem is that any of the above weapons, in the hands of someone bent on a violent action would be worthless, as would a universal licensing of all firearms by the federal government.
