Guns Don't Kill People; Spears Kill People?

The following story illustrates the errant focus of gun-grabbers.

According to an ethnography by Robarchek and Robarchek on the Waoroni people of the Ecuadorian rainforest, the Waoroni had one of the highest homicide rates known to man. They didn't use guns to kill each other; they used spears.

Here's why the murder rate was so high. The Waoroni lived in small tribal groups, and if a tribesman got bitten by a snake and died, (not a rare occurrence in the jungle), the tribe members didn't know how to cope with it. An infectious rage would build among them. Often, one of them would accuse a a person from a neighboring tribe of engaging in sorcery to send a snake to bite the tribe member. Their simmering rage would ignite into a murderous frenzy, and, gathering up their spears, they would spear people from the neighboring tribe, often murdering many.

This practice continued until Christian missionaries made contact with the Waoroni and implored them to "follow the one who did not spear", i.e. Jesus. After meeting the missionaries and adopting Christianity, the practice of mass murder died out among the Waoroni. I have the impression that if a gun grabber had had first contact with the Waoroni, he would have said to them "Gentlemen, hand in your spears."