Run your hand along the smooth-steel barrel. Tease the trigger with your index finger. Feel the rush of power in repose. Now try to resist the urge to aim at something.
Handguns are terribly seductive.
A gun is power. Young marksman can qualify for a club-sponsored scholarship. Guns are also terribly destructive. A killer can do in a fraction of a second, by exerting a few pounds of pressure on a trigger, what it might take him 10 minutes and a lot of exertion to do with a baseball bat. Disturbed teen-age boys understand this all too well, as we have seen here at Santana and Granite Hills high schools and at other schools across America.