Guns Don’t Kill Americans, Stale Bad Arguments Do

[gracchus]

Claim: cars kill more children than firearms in America, but no-one is asking us to ban cars.

First of all (h/t @FGD135)

Guns have finally beat out cars as the leading killer of American kids

But even before that line was crossed, cars were not purpose-designed to kill or wound living creatures. Also…

@Brainspore

Most people in modern society are CONSTANTLY surrounded by people using cars. We’ve literally built most of our cities around them. An urban commuter might see tens or even hundreds of thousands of people actively using their automobiles in a single day. An avid hunter or target shooter might see a few dozen guns in a month, IF he regularly visits a shooting range.

In other words, if cars were as inherently dangerous as guns then the death toll wouldn’t even be close because the sheer number of human/car interactions is orders of magnitude higher than the number of human/gun interactions.

And going to the issue of controls and regulation…

@1000YearBan

AND YET there’s all kinds of restrictions on who can drive one, mandatory training, insurance and licensing, etc to keep motor vehicle use safer for the public.

So it’s a really stupid whatabout argument for them to keep making