“Gun Death” Hammer

Last week, we were roofing at Wally’s, and a few times a hammer would slip out of our hands slide off the roof. We’d shout “Heads UP” then make sure all the dudes on the ground were still vertical. Why all the concern? Because hammers are DANGEROUS!

WYLIE, Texas – An 18-year-old Wylie boy was sentenced Friday for the murder of a man who was angry at a teen speeding through his neighborhood.

Another story, we were assembling a playset in Vector’s backyard, and we went looking for a hammer and couldn’t find anything but a shitty tack hammer. Mrs. Weer’d was so amazed that the house didn’t have any decent framing hammers in it we bought Vector a top-notch one for his birthday. Seriously, EVERYBODY has a framing hammer in their house. People with tools will have tack hammers, nylon mallets, dead blow hammers, sledges etc.

Here we have a “Hammer Death”. In the eyes of people who use the metric of “Gun Death” they claim guns cause crime. Well in this case we have a “Hammer Death”, and damn near EVERYBODY has a hammer or 20. Seems hammers don’t cause crime.

Maybe the “Gun Death” people are wrong.

h/t Bob

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0 Responses to “Gun Death” Hammer

  1. ZerCool says:

    And you call yourself a tool-using primate.

    Not everyone has a framing hammer, because they really are only useful for framing. They’re heavy (20+ ounces), and have long handles, and the claw isn’t curved enough to really pull nails well.

    Most people have a claw hammer in the 16-18oz range, which is probably the most useful all-purpose hammer out there. It’s the .38 K-frame of the tool world.

    And us real tool men have AIR POWERED HAMMERS.

    Which, by the by, make roofing SO much easier…

    • AZRon says:

      As a tool guy myself, I have to agree with your over-all assessment. My framer can drive a tenpenny in a single stroke, but I only look for it when I’m framing.

      On the other hand, my 18 oz claw, and 32 oz ball pein get a lot of use.

  2. Tio Volatito says:

    You can apply one of the anti-gun-rights arguments that if the hammer wasn’t available, then the victim might have been beaten up, but wouldn’t be dead. The solution? Registration and licensing, obviously, but ban all hand-wielded hammers. If the boys only had access to an air-powered nail “gun”, then their air hose probably wouldn’t have been long enough to reach the victim’s home. And does anyone really need one of those regular old concealable hammers? All they’re good for is smashing things (nails, fingers, skulls). That’s what they’re designed to do. Any reasonable person would buy one of the brad nailer/pancake compressor combos at Home Depot.

  3. Greg Camp says:

    I hope you didn’t buy that hammer and donate that hammer across state lines–gasp! Did you run a background check on your friend? Was there any microstamping done so nails driven by this hammer can be easily identified? Weer’d, you’re a part of the problem!

    Keep up the good work.

  4. JDRush says:

    Would my drawer full of various hammers be considered a high capacity clip?
    The two in tool boxes are CCH’s (without a permit!).
    And the one I sometimes have on my tool belt is intimidatingly open carried!
    And the sledge is a shoulder thing that goes up!

  5. AuricTech says:

    Of course, the last century saw over 100 million hammer-and-sickle deaths….

  6. Dwight Brown says:

    Speaking of hammers, Weer’d, this doesn’t qualify for the “Gun Death” files since nobody was killed, but…

    An elderly woman armed with a hammer held SWAT officers at bay for several hours Tuesday inside her southeast Houston home.

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