Different Ways To die

"EVERY TIME there's a shooting spree they want to take away the guns from everybody who didn't do it"   --- William S. Burroughs

"Before every shoothing spree the gunman is among those who hadn't yet done it." -- R. R. Bond

Just another example of: its all how you look at it.

Of the tens of millions of guns in america, one or two of them, at least, are owned by people who will, within a short period of time, get off their lazy butts and get out and kill a few folks at random. That is, at any rate, what is indicated by recent history.

Or perhaps it will never happen again (he said, while dreaming). Since we don't know who the future shooters are, take everyone's guns, punish a few million innocent gun owners. Just to be safe. Maybe its worth it. Maybe it isn't.

Random gunpeople kill more people than terrorists, and cars kill more people than guns. Cars don't kill people, people kill cars. Oops, I mean, people kill people. If we eliminate guns and cars both, people will kill one another with neither as the vehicle of death. Then, we would have to think of other ways to do the killing, and, given our creative minds, don't count us out. If all else fails, we might have to rely on God to do the killing. He (or she, or it) seems willing.

Prescription medication doesn't kill people, hospital emergency rooms don't kill people, people kill people using prescription medication and emergency rooms. Its wisest to use these things judiciously.

I heard someone on the radio say something to the effect that anyone who is alvie right now has a chance of living indefinitely, due to advances in medical arts and sciences. It was either an octogenarian who said it, or a medical specialist on the aging process. Maybe both. Get a load of that one hundred year old doctor in san fran who said he does not think exercise or vitamins does much good, and he can back it up. Is he still living?

I think I'll exercise, take a few vitamins, but not too many, try to drive less, and stick to target shooting with BB guns. I'll try to avoid tailgaters, and practice dodging bullets. Maybe I'll live longer.

That way, if I die young, it might at least be my own damned fault.