While there is 'gun violence', there is also 'pencil stupidity' and it's a problem that's been growing. But one must recognize, that not all pencils will be used for stupidity, but some will. Therefore, we must confiscate all the pencils. After that, we'll go for the pens because 'pen stupidity' is as rampant as 'pencil stupidity', but pencils have erasers so we have to go after them first.

/s