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"The National Rifle Accociation says that guns don't kill people, people do. But I think the gun helps. I think it helps, I think just standing there and going BANG!, that's not going to kill too many people is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart, BANG! BANG! BOOM! BANG! RAT-A-TAT! BANG!" - Eddie Izzard
Sure you can kill somebody with a stick, but you have to be REALLY CLOSE to them to do it.
You can't attach a scope to a stick and make a long-range sniper-stick to whack someone in the head from 200 meters away.
You don't see drive-by stick whacking.
I don't think "Stop! I've got a STICK!" is really going to scare a criminal.
I'm sure a bank robbery wouldn't go so well if you threatened the teller with a stick. "Give me the money, or I'll whack you with this STICK!" or pass them a note that says "I have a STICK, and I'll WHACK you with it if you don't give me the money!"
Can you see the police saying "Put down the stick, and come out with you hands UP!" No!
I think a school tragedy would be avoided if two misguided students burst into a classroom weilding STICKS.
Why don't you go try to hunt a deer with only a stick and see how you do.
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