The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I don't know if this is a new thing sweeping across conservative sites, but last night, I read a Facebook status from someone which said this: "Stepped on the scale the other day...noticed I gained some weight. I was looking for someone/thing to blame and decided it is clearly the fault of the eating utensils in my home....just as the violence our nation is blamed on guns. Please support me as I attempt to pass legislation that will ban forks and spoons (or at least limit who has access to them) to help cure our country's obesity problem..." Cute, isn't it? The individual is attempting to compare the link between guns and gun violence to the link between utensils and obesity. Forks and spoons are simply the tools we use to eat food, which can lead to obesity, just like a gun is the tool which can lead to gun violence. While the analogy is a nice try in a series of such attempts, it fails on multiple levels. One problem with it, is like I illustrated in my re...