Muscatine

Yea; criminals with intent will always give you a head start. Uh Huh. Did Nicole Simpson have one? If she had a gun, she likely might be alive today, and OJ dead, or wounded and in prison. You pacifists will always be easy victims. Just don't tread on my rights to protect myself.

"Give me a head start and I might be able to outrun a guy with a knife, or a club until I reached safety.   I can't outrun a bullet."

Or the gun might misfire.  Or the gunman might miss.  But the knife wouldn't misfire or miss would it????  And it sure didn't in Nicole's case did it?

Besides, Why would I give you a head start?

Neither you, Costas or the joker that Costas quoted, have a valid argument on this one.  The cause of the deaths was not the gun.  It was the cretin who picked it up and used it. 

By the way:

Gun control is not about "Guns".  It is about "Control".

And.....what part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

And.....Malodery, Costas, and many others have absolutely no knowledge of the fact that good men and women — and oftentimes, the physically weakest among us — rely on firearms as the only reasonable means of protecting themselves from would-be murderers, rapists and thugs.

Take the case of the elderly woman in Sarasota, Florida, who, earlier this year, used a handgun to fend off an attacker who broke through her kitchen window. "I was fearful of my life," the grandmother tearfully told a 911 operator after she fired two shots at the intruder, causing him to flee.

Or the case of a young Oklahoma mother, who used a firearm to successfully defend herself and her three-month-old baby this past New Year's Eve from a man armed with a 12-inch hunting knife who kicked in her door and came straight for her and her child.

On the other hand, consider the tragic reality of Bob Costas' and Jason Whitlock's gun-ban utopia.

In 2007, Amanda Collins was a student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Although she possessed a legal permit to carry a handgun, the university prohibited her from doing so on campus property.

Late one night, after taking a mid-term exam, Collins was attacked and brutally raped in a campus parking garage located just 100 yards from a police station. And although she escaped with her life that night, another young woman abducted near the same campus would not be so lucky.

Brianna Denison had been staying with a friend during winter break when she went missing in the middle of the night. After a frantic, four-week search, authorities finally found Brianna’s naked, frozen body, crudely hidden underneath a discarded Christmas tree. She had been kidnapped, raped and strangled to death — savaged by the same monster who attacked Amanda in the parking garage just a few months earlier.

I've got hundreds more examples, if you really need them.