In light of his opportunistic comment that the availability of guns makes mayhem easier, after an NFL player shot and killed his girlfriend and himself, Bob Costas will want to include cars as mayhem contributors, given the reckless use of one was recently responsible for the death of another NFL player.
I’ll be taken to task by some for saying this. Wait a minute, they’ll say, the clear intention of the former was murder (and suicide), the latter, while evidently reckless, was nevertheless an accident. That’s a fair point (although legally it’s not being treated as an accident). But then the Costas objection should be corrected: Bad intentions lead to mayhem. Because intentions originate in a human mind, not the barrel of a gun.
Besides, we don’t know if, absent the availability of a gun, the murderer would not have simply chosen a substitute weapon, like a knife, the weapon of choice of another famous football player with bad intentions who used it (evidently) to kill his ex wife and her friend.