Guns aren’t only deadly weapon

Bob Elliott's April 29 column, “?‘Well-regulated militia' is nowhere in sight,” points only to individuals involved in gun violence and ignores victims of other violent crimes.

Why is a victim of a stabbing or any other violent act not important? The time period that Elliott speaks of also had a 24-year-old stabbed to death and a 23-year-old run down with a tractor. Young lives lost, but not mentioned because a gun was not involved. It's the same message used by the former IPGV, or Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence.

Cedar Rapids police are investigating the attempted murder of two individuals by stabbing. Will Elliott call for the ban of knives? He is more fearful of the law-abiding armed citizen than he is of the element that carries guns, knives, baseball bats and other tools that are just as deadly.

The Second Amendment allows individuals to protect themselves and others rather than becoming another number. If he wants to stand by and watch people or himself be stabbed, beaten or shot, then so be it. I would rather be prepared than become one of those numbers.

Tom Webb

Quasqueton