(June 13, 2016 at 2:11 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(June 13, 2016 at 1:59 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Hold up! I'm lying? About what exactly?
Here are my exact quotes.
*emphasis mine*
Last time I checked 32,000 is FOUR TIMES AS MANY as 8,000.
You quoting me as stating "four times as likely" is false.
*emphasis mine*
Now who's the liar?
What you don't seem to understand is that you need to have use rates of each item in order to compute the likelihood of death arising from usage.
Four times as many people may die in auto accidents each year, but how many people drive (or ride, for that matter -- autos kill passengers, too) how many miles each year, compared to how many people fire how many rounds each year? Those facts are needed to compute likelihood. This is why any claim of autos being "four times more likely" to cause death is empty: the requisite data hasn't been presented.
What you don't get is I never made any claim of autos being "four times more likely" to cause death, all I stated was the body count between guns and cars. If everyone had guns and were shooting them off on a daily basis and there were 128,000 gun deaths per year vs 32,000 auto deaths, would that be more acceptable seeing how guns were being used more than autos in that scenario?