Due to some recent events, and because it’s a big US Presidential election year, of course many folks are talking gun control and gun bans. Why? Because guns are evil, guns are bad, and if we just banned guns everything would become hunky-dory.

I just read this article, which proves that point:

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store.

Some crazy guy walks into a store, buys a knife, then turns around and starts stabbing people. He seriously stabbed two people while screaming “YOU KILLED MY PEOPLE!”. That’s textbook crazy right there.

Then, before the suspect could find another victim – a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. “A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith’s grabbed him.”

So you see, proof right there that guns can only be used for evil purposes.

Oh wait.

That looks to me like a gun was used for a good purpose. It stopped a crazy person from going on a killing spree.

Actually check that. The gun didn’t do anything. You see, it’s an inanimate object. It can’t do anything. No, it’s all about the person using the gun.

Some private citizen, carrying their gun (concealed carry, it would seem), was able to draw their weapon, point it at this rampaging lunatic, and got them to stop their rampage before tons of ugly could happen. The gun didn’t do anything, but this person did a very good thing and happened to use a gun to do it. In fact, without the gun they wouldn’t have been able to do this good thing. Huh. Imagine that.

Where were the police? Because I’m told the police will protect me and are all the protection we need. I’m sure they would have shown up eventually, but how much death and destruction would have happened?

This also demonstrates that concealed carry is bad. Because private citizens don’t have the wherewithal. They’ll just be a liability. They’ll just be dangerous. Uh huh.

By the time officers arrived the suspect had been subdued by employees and shoppers. Police had high praise for gun carrying man who ended the hysteria. Lt. Brian Purvis said, “This was a volatile situation that could have gotten worse. We can only assume from what we saw it could have gotten worse. He was definitely in the right place at the right time.”

Dozens of other shoppers, who too could have become victims, are also thankful for the gun carrying man.

And I bet if you were there in the thick of it, you too would be thankful for that man — and his gun.

It’s not the implement. It’s the man using the implement.