Personifying things doesn't help

In case you've forgotten that personifying issues doesn't change Keyes' mind, here's this about gun control from the same CBS 2 article:

Silvia Lopez, a 17-year-old senior at Roberto Clemente High School who said she was shot in the thigh last year, asked how she and other victims of gun violence could possibly feel safer with guns available on the streets. ``I think, unhappily, it was not the gun that shot you,'' Keyes responded. ``The problem in our community is not with weapons, it is with people.''