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. Experts who have studied and written about gun violence in America say little boys seem drawn to guns instinctively. Frieda Outlaw, who teaches psychiatric nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, said she is strongly anti-gun, and she and her husband strictly forbade the oldest of their three sons to play with toy guns. But every time that boy got out his Lego set, the first thing he did was fashion a gun and point it at things.