Gun fetishists keep trying to say that their weapons are no deadlier than the cars which kill countless Americans every year but I don’t remember the last time I saw a car owner respond to news about a horrifying fatal automobile pileup by proudly posting pictures of their car collections. Because that would be a pretty fucked up response regardless of how you think cars should be regulated.
19 Likes
18 Likes
Yes, I know. That was always a terrible argument even when cars were killing more kids than guns.
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.
19 Likes
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
18 Likes
It’s almost as if we’ve spent the last century trying to figure out ways to make cars less likely to kill people even as the firearm industry has been raking in the dough by marketing more weapons of war to civilians.
18 Likes
How is this not a conflict of interest?
14 Likes
I’d presume he’d have to resign the police chief position upon joining the city council, but this is Texas so who knows?
9 Likes
15 Likes
Yup
And this is their catechism. I heard some idiot at the NRA convention repeat this line just a few days after the Uvalde shooting. And none of them beat him. How do we find our way out of this pit?
18 Likes
I don’t know if we can, at least not for a while. I don’t think we’ve reached the bottom yet.
10 Likes
My kids grew up on the south side of Chicago, and I remember this question every year for the annual check-up:
And of course, this is yet another example of ‘overreach’: how dare you ask me about my God-given Constitutional right?
In 2010, a woman in Florida was outraged over her kids’ doctor asking this “invasive” question, and helped set into motion a years-long legal saga known as “the docs versus the glocks”. The National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbied to get Florida to pass a law called the Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act, which prevented doctors from asking about gun ownership except in certain circumstances. If a doctor did raise the gun question, they risked losing their licence, and a $10,000 fine.
13 Likes
I dread to think what might eventually be bad enough to overcome the Cult of Moloch’s obstruction.
8 Likes
I don’t remember our pediatrician ever asking this question. But I also know how very dangerous it is to even have a gun in the same house as a child, so I’m not sure it would have even caught my attention.
I dread the expansion of our kid’s social circle. Her going over for a playdate in a house with guns is a hard no. I don’t want to deal with the fall out but it is not negotiable
@LurksNoMore
I too am afraid.
9 Likes
We used to ask this question. We were advised that it opened us up to lawsuits, so we stopped. I have felt bad about that decision ever since.
16 Likes
That’s awful 
I bet you can’t provide literature either
11 Likes
15 Likes
11 Likes
