In practically all the fiction books I read....

[SheilaT]

13. Why nothing I ever write will

have guns.

I always laugh at the suggestion that knitting needles might be used to commit mass murder. Oh, you could kill a couple of people -- more if you were in a place where you could approach individuals who would not fight back, but they simple don't have a very good design.

Those tiny sharp scissors that we like to use to cut yarn or embroidery floss, also could not inflict very much damage. But for years we could not bring knitting needles or crochet hooks or embroidery scissors on board an airplane. Pens were okay though, and a pen can be easily as lethal as a crochet hook, possibly more so.

In the end, an inventive or clever or desperate person can turn almost anything into a weapon.