Where did they get those knives?

The media went a little nutty on the gun shop in Killeen that sold the gun to the man who committed the latest mass murder at Ft. Hood. Perhaps if we did away with the nutty law that says army personnel can't carry weapons on base, we wouldn't have to worry so much about no one being able to stop the nuts who bring guns onto the base despite the law.

Anyway, they've made a big deal about this being the same gun shop where Nidal Hassan bought his gun. That the two would buy guns from the same shop is not all that surprising since it is in close proximity to Ft. Hood.

I noticed in a recent edition of the paper several different reports of murders and attempted murders. There was Khyla Thomas who stabbed her brother to death. There was Mark McCay who was stabbed outside his business nine times by a stranger who fled. Then there was Anthaneta Bush who pulled a 6-inch steak knife from her purse and stabbed a 61-year-old man in a motel parking lot. And a trespasser at a downtown Dallas wrecking lot, Cobi Ben Bullard, stabbed the employees who were escorting him off the premises. And those are the reports from just one day.

But nowhere have I seen an outcry against the proliferation of knives, or demands to know where these people bought the knives, or demands that knives be registered. If we're going to get serious about dangerous weapons, shouldn't we be serious about all of them?

For that matter, there was recently a case tried where a woman stabbed her boyfriend 25 times in the face with the stiletto heel of her shoe. Wonder if she had a concealed wearing license for stilettos? Shouldn't there be a waiting period in the shoe departments at Neiman Marcus, Macy's, and Dillard's?