Lizzie and her axe

In an opinion piece in the Ledger Dispatch of Jackson, CA, letter writer Joe Dirickx penned a letter titled “More handgun laws are not the answer.” He cites various instances where major crimes were committed by people who would have stopped at nothing to do their dastardly deeds. Of course, here we have the standard inclusion of Lizzie Borden. Even when we all know she was acquitted.

If an individual is set on doing harm to you, your family or the public, they will find a way. In the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, Timothy McVay killed 169 men, women and children using a mixture of fertilizer and fuel oil, materials available to anyone. On March 3, 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove his rented Jeep Cherokee into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina. Luckily he didn’t kill anyone, but that was his intent. After his surrender, he was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury, and then there was Lizzie Borden and her ax.

Here is a link to his entire argument.