In the absence of guns, criminal wields axe

The New York Times has a story today, Axe-Wielding Pupil Wounds Several in German School. A quote to get the gist:

ANSBACH, Germany (Reuters) - An 18-year-old man threw petrol bombs into two classrooms and lashed out with an axe at his school in Germany on Thursday, severely wounding two girls, before police shot him in the stomach to stop him.

I have pointed out in several posts that even if the full agenda of the gun banners were enacted, many other things can serve as weapons if someone has it in his heart to kill another. Here is proof, as if more were needed. A high school boy uses Molotov cocktails, an axe, and if you read further down, two knives. The axe, by the way, is terrifying if used as a weapon. Molotov Cocktails are simply gasoline poured in a glass container with a piece of cloth used as a plug. The piece of cloth is lit, and then the cocktail is thrown at a person's feet.

So I wonder, as I have wondered before why gun violence alone is always highlighted,to the exclusion of other forms of violence. If getting people to stop killing one another were the goal, then the gun grabbers would have to advocate for going after the persons doing the killing. That they don't, that they indeed seem at times to want to protect these criminals, indicates to me that the real goal is creating chaos. Guns, as I have noted here represent civilization, by preventing the old and the weak from being the prey of the young and the strong. Guns provide the teeth to back up our claim to rights.

As noted in the article, the 18 year old miscreant was stopped by police with guns. But the government should not have a monopoly on the use of force. Citizens can and do stop much crime every day often by just showing their weapons. Maybe if a citizen had had a gun, the two girls would not have been injured.