The fact of the matter is, an American child is more likely to die in a swimming-pool accident than from a bullet. It's alarming that someone with Hall's obvious intelligence and eloquence would resort to such a reductive argument, but it comes as no surprise. I think I have my Anarchist card around here somewhere. . . . The point is, if we ban guns we won't stop crime. Not until we resolve the brutal and grinding scourge of poverty in this country, not until we rise above the twin cults of individualism and consumerism, not until we conquer the class divide will violence cease or decrease in this country.
Guns kill people.
But poverty and alienation are what allow one human to devalue, and easily kill, another human. In an age where legislators increasingly represent the needs of an elite few at the expense of the oppressed many, it seems a bad idea to give total control of deadly force to the government. If you disarm every citizen, then only the government will have guns. That, my dear Mr. Hall, is a truly chilling proposition. Also, due to incorrect information from the mayor's office, The Nose incorrectly reported last week that the Baltimore Development Corp. is conducting audits of city-government agencies.