Wait, what?

Yeah, you heard me. Three people were killed over Christmas because of a cake.Three women died after consuming a homemade cake during a family gathering in Brazil – prompting police to probe the mysterious death of the baker’s late husband who perished from food poisoning months prior.

Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos, 43, and Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 58, each died from cardiac arrest after eating Bolo de Natal – a Brazilian Christmas cake – during a holiday celebration in Torres on Monday, according to a local outlet. 

Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjos, 65, was reported dead on Christmas Eve, with her cause of death ruled a “shock after poisoning,” according to the Hospital Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes de Torres.

Civil Police are investigating the peculiar deaths after arsenic was found in blood tests conducted on two of the surviving family members and one who died, Globo reported.

Three additional family members remain hospitalized, including a 10-year-old boy and Zeli Terezinha Silva dos Anjos, 61, who made the tainted dessert with her sister and hosted the devastating occasion.

The disturbing discovery prompted officials to launch an investigation into the death of Zeli’s late husband, who died in September from food poisoning. Police are requesting his body be exhumed, the outlet reported.

So we're looking at three deaths, with other family members hospitalized, and a potential earlier murder of her husband, and not a single firearm in sight.

Funny how that shakes out, isn't it?

See, the problem isn't the tool but the tool using it. Arsenic isn't necessarily illegal to own, but it's also not exactly stocked on every store's shelves, either. You have to seek it out, and while pesticides are a common enough source, the use of it has been phased out in Brazil over the years, meaning it's not the easiest thing to get.

And yet, someone sure seemed to want to get it and put it in the cake.

Of course, even if arsenic wasn't used, something else likely would have. I recall a woman who killed her husband here in Georgia a while back by making sweet tea with antifreeze. She'd apparently offed her previous husband the same way and got away with it until she got too comfortable and tried it a second time.

Those who want to kill will simply find a way to kill.

Now, this is one of those cases where it's kind of hard to act in self-defense--you can't defend yourself if you don't know you're under attack, after all--but it highlights the point that those who want to kill have plenty of means to kill beyond a firearm. You can't stop murder by restricting a single weapon type. That's never going to solve the problem.

Then again, it's not like the people pushing for gun control are really worried in the least with the concept of murder or violent crime as a whole, only those that involve guns. It's almost like they don't actually care as much for human life as they want you to believe.

If the cake is a lie, then gun control is something far, far worse.