These silly "hammer" people are showing up again.

In real life, you are now allowed to bash people over the head with a hammer. It's against the law. You don't have to ban hammers because you have the rule of law that makes it a crime to use a hammer to harm someone.

Not so hand-guns. Hand-guns *are* banned, especially in large crowded cities where they tend to accidently harm bystandards not even involved in a dispute. There it makes sense to ban the instrument for the crime as a form of harm reduction and mitigation of risk.

Everybody gets this in RL; nobody harangues the halls of Congress with screaming about liberating hand guns; even those "hand guns don't kill people; people kill people" recognize the need for LICENSING HAND GUNS and RESTRICTING THEIR USE.

Not so the opensource freaks who use the "hammer" and "hand-gun" analogies wilfully, obdurately and falsely over and over again, despite logic and common sense.

And here they go again, refusing to acknowledge that even gun advocates don't stop the LICENSING and RESTRICTION of handguns in RL. If hammers became a widespread weapon of choice for assault and murder, they'd be restricted, too.

In Second Life, it has been far too easy to come in and bash people over the head with third-party viewers. These are now being regulated because they are the vehicle for action against others.