Once again, I agree with BillD and would remind that lighters are not engineered and manufactured for the express purpose of killing which is what guns are made for...there's no other use for a gun but to kill. There are no mythical legends or religious stories about "god" giving guns to humankind as there are myths about fire being brought on by some divinity. Fire is not just for killing. It is disingenuous to compare lighters to guns, just as it is when someone tries that old saw about cars, also not manufactured or engineered to kill.

A lighter would not have killed this young girl:

BROCKTON, Mass. — A fire chief in Massachusetts is investigating why it took nearly 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at the scene of a fatal shooting at a baby shower over the weekend.

The first call that 16-year-old Chantel Matiyosus had been shot as she left the shower in Brockton came in at 10:57 p.m. on Saturday.