re gun control was re we re mad as hell at the tv news in article c tshu ew magpie linknet com manes magpie linknet com steve manes writes what relevance are all homicides in this debate what do you think gun control advocates are saying that if we get rid of all handguns we will live in a homicide free world they sure make it sound like that the issue is guns not baseball bats even a simpleton knows that he stands a better chance of surviving an attack with a baseball bat certainly of outrunning a bat wielding assailant even a simpleton knows a baseball bat is considered a deadly weapon if one cannot run away e g old infirm even middle aged if the assailant is younger a handgun is the most effective means of defense you won t even have to fire a shot of the time as for knives see my earlier post i d much rather face a knife than a gun thanks fortunately the best defense against a knife isn t another knife anyone trained in unarmed self defense won t have much of a problem disarming a knife assailant untrained in knife assault which probably means of knife assailants any real streetfighter and there are lots of them with or without a knife will kick the living sh out of most people trained in unarmed self defense for the majority of people a gun is the most effective form of self defense al standard disclaimer
