Of course I’m not in favor of gun control, at least not as it currently exists, and the conditions under which I would support it are also conditions in which it wouldn’t come up. But I do oppose murdering people. As one of the DRT philosophers, Brooke Shields, noted “If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” How true! So, how do we deal with murders in which guns are used? Very simple, and I’m surprised it took me this long to figure it out. The murderer has to eat what he kills. All of it. I know this might trouble the families of the victims. However as deterrence goes this is pretty hard to top. Civic-minded people could take special care to make themselves inedible. People who are majestically proportioned would have fewer concerns than they do at present. It’s possible that we might see a slight rise in cannibalism, but no legislation is perfect and I suspect the decline in the murder rate would make it tolerable.