They were mostly children, yes, he could have murdered them with baseball bats. How many college co-eds did Ted Bundy get with a bat on his last killing spree?
Comparing guns to cigarettes is apples and oranges....your premise makes no sense.
It makes complete sense. In his first 'myth' debunking the author attempst to argue that gun (an inanimate object) in fact DO kill people. Cigarettes are also an inanimate object that also DO in fact kill people. Cig and guns have more in common than not. In fact the only real difference between the two is their physical appearence. That and cigs kill a hell of lot more people on a yearly basis, yet we still allow people the right to smoke them.