Guns Are Not The Root of all Evil

Guns are not the root of all evil. Consider the following stories found in this morning's newspaper:

Bad Mothers

Two Macomb County men are facing criminal sexual conduct charges after they repeatedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl — the same teen who a year earlier had posed as an 18-year-old on a popular teen networking Web site.

The teen’s mother has been charged with second-degree child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after police discovered she knew her daughter was having sex in the Utica apartment. The teen had had two miscarriages and is pregnant again.

Stabbed Basketball Player

A Rice University basketball player was stabbed to death early Thursday outside a bar in College Station.

Jonathan Bailey and his twin brother, Janson, were involved in a fight inside the bar, located about 100 miles northwest of Houston, College Station police said. Those involved in the fight were asked to leave the bar but the altercation continued outside.

Police found the Bailey brothers at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday. They had been stabbed multiple times. The brothers had turned 22 on Wednesday.

Intentional Destruction

Everything including the kitchen sink was stripped from a rental home after an Internet classified ad invited people to take whatever they wanted for free.

But the landlord says the ad, posted last weekend on the craigslist Web site, was fake.

“In the ad, it said come and take what you want. Everything is free,” Laurie Raye told Seattle’s KING-TV.

Raye had cleaned out the rental after evicting a tenant. After the ad appeared, the property was stripped of the sink, light fixtures and the hot water heater. Even the front door and a vinyl window were pilfered, Raye said.

There are some sick people out there, but the gun owner is demonized beyond everyone. Why?