The media only seem to call for hand gun bans when there is a high profile murder, especially involving celebrities. Costas now wants to ban hand guns in the wake of a murder suicide-committed by an NFL linebacker named Jovan Belcher. So if famous people like Bob Costas are successfully prohibited from owning hand guns, there would presumably be fewer shootings among them, and the media will not be so eager to ban hand guns.
Another solution is to ban people. As long as the implicit goal is to prevent all hand gun deaths, banning people would be more efficient than banning hand guns because it is more difficult to hide a human than conceal a hand gun. Also, there are far fewer murders per square mile where there are fewer people. Absurd goals deserve absurd solutions.
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