“O.K. Boys, Fork Over Them Knives”
by Dennis Peacocke
As the grisly death toll of murder and mayhem continues to pile up in domestic violence, I feel as if we are living in some kind of violent madhouse. Fathers killing their children, mothers killing their children, and children killing both parents and other children has created some kind of numbed-out environment where the line between macabre fantasy and darkest reality has blurred to the point of indistinguishability.
The cause of it all is easily identifiable. Human nature has at its core a kind of fatal corruption which, under the proper pressure and circumstance, reveals itself to be insanely selfish and destructive. While created in the image of God, we also bear the image of God’s satanic nemesis. All pollyannish denial to the contrary, we are all capable of as much evil as we are good. For a culture to be as healthy as possible it must live in this sobering reality. Ours doesn’t, hence the ever-widening consequences of moral insanity where those most vulnerable are increasingly its victims.
Abortion, that practice of infanticide wherein babies are sacrificed on the altar of the monstrous self-centeredness of adults, lies at the root of our murderous society. Close on its narcissistic heels is the pagan view of power which believes that controlling others and de-humanizing them physically, sexually, or psychologically somehow makes one safer and more “powerful.” It’s all fueled by our increasingly anti-Christ culture where secular humanism has gutted our cultural morality and worldview with a perjurious historical revisionism worthy of the Hitlers and Stalins whose ambitions we claim to have not only defeated but transcended.
So, true to form, our humanist forces of the propaganda of absurdity want to remove the weapons of murder rather than deal with absence of ethical and legal restraint, which passively encourages it. Great. Let’s begin with the abortionist’s scalpels and suction hoses. Then let’s confiscate everybody’s sharp knives and create a world of rubber or soft plastic eating utensils. Then, yes, dear Lord then, let’s go after those heinous guns.
The gun reformers amuse me most in this cartoon world of let’s pretend. Let’s undergird this discussion with some illuminating facts:
Doctors:
- The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
- Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
- Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Now Guns:
- The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000. Yes, that is 80 million.
- The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
- The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.00001875.
Statistics courtesy of FBI.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,120 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember, “Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.”
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR!
I thank God for doctors, but this line of ‘reasoning’ is applicable to the so-called gun control debate.
Okay, so much for accidental gun deaths. What about the statistics dealing with murder by guns?
Consider the following:
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Survey data shows that guns are used defensively by private citizens in the U.S. from 1.5 to 3.4 million times a year, at least three times more frequently than guns are used to commit crimes.
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I quote from an article by John R. Lott Jr., former chief economist for the U.S. sentencing commission as he studied the bias of media reporting relative to gun crimes committed versus gun use in preventing crime by private citizens:
“During 2001, the New York Times published 104 gun crime news articles — ranging from a short blurb about a bar fight to a front-page story on a school shooting — for a total of 50,745 words. In comparison, its single story about a gun used in self-defense amounted to all of 163 words. USA Today printed 5,660 words on crimes committed with guns, and not a single word on defensive gun use.”1
I’m neither a “gun nut,” member of the NRA, or even a practiced proponent of gun-owner rights. My point is simply this: arresting cars will not reduce the number of deaths caused by car accidents. Nevertheless, in the spirit of our secular society for the socially insane, I say, “O.K. boys, let’s fork over them knives. Them things is killing people.” And that is...
1John R. Lott, Jr., “Media Bias Against Guns,” Imprimis (September 2004, Vol. 33, No. 9)
the bottom line.
