Thursday, October 24, 2002
IT'S THE GUNS, STUPID
Well, they appear to have caught the D.C. sniper. Appear being the operative word. And already the talk about gun control is being subsumed into the chatter about his personal story--his religion, his psychological history, his military record. It's absolutely true, crazy people can and do kill their victims with their bare hands. (On one of the t.v. movies I worked on, the murderer killed his wife with a dumbbell, then drove her body many miles, and finally buried her near a bird shelter--because she "liked nature.") But they can't do it as efficiently as crazy people armed with high-powered rifles.
Well, they appear to have caught the D.C. sniper. Appear being the operative word. And already the talk about gun control is being subsumed into the chatter about his personal story--his religion, his psychological history, his military record. It's absolutely true, crazy people can and do kill their victims with their bare hands. (On one of the t.v. movies I worked on, the murderer killed his wife with a dumbbell, then drove her body many miles, and finally buried her near a bird shelter--because she "liked nature.") But they can't do it as efficiently as crazy people armed with high-powered rifles.
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