Along those same lines, I wonder how easy it is to accidentally kill multiple people with a gun? Its pretty easy to kill multiple people by accident with a car.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:347506 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
