On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> it's a lot harder to kill multiple people with a knife than it is to fire >> off several rounds from a firearm. talk about red herrings...you just >> stated a years worth of that catch... > > And its even easier to run them over with a car, yet I don't hear you > clamoring to ban automobiles. In 2009, automobile related fatalities > accounted for 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people - > http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx . What do you propose we > do about that? Surely if the death rate from fire arms alarms you, the > death rate from automobiles should be equally alarming.
I would suggest that it must not be easier to run someone over with a car than to shoot them as homicides involve hand guns much more frequently than they do cars. The high number of fatalities involving automobile use are owing to the wide usage of automobiles and the attendant risk of (usually accidental) death. Hand guns, to the contrary, do not have the same regular usage for tasks other than, well, shooting at people. Some people do take their hand guns out shooting recreationaly, of course. And accidents do happen. But the rate of people who aim their gun at another person versus the rate of people who aim their car at another person seems to be drastically different, so I don't feel like your analogy really follows logically. Cheers, Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347492 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
