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“I am not anti-gun. I’m pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We’d turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don’t ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.”

– Molly Ivins, controversial Texan columnist

My junior year of high school we read a series of essays in English class. One of those essays was written by Molly Ivins.  More than a decade later, I still remember being throughly impressed with her half-joking suggestion that we swap guns for knives and the defense weapon of choice.

She made a point; people don’t accidentally kill people with knives.