(June 13, 2016 at 2:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Yet you fail to see the irony in the thing that is DESIGNED to be safe having a higher body count every year than the thing designed to kill.
There's no irony at all.
There are laws against killing people. The vast majority of both gun and car owners do not use guns / cars to kill people, simply because it is wrong to do so, and there are laws against it.
On top of that, the vast majority of deaths involving a car are not homicides. In fact, if we were to count that number, it would be negligible. The same cannot be said for guns. Based on the statistics used in this thread, homicides account for around 30% of gun deaths. If you just look at homicides alone, 67% of them are caused by a gun.
Now let's look at usage. Whilst there are more guns than cars, cars are used far more often than guns, because most people use cars on a regular basis. Cars are also used near each other more often than guns. Try and count all the cars you pass on a single drive, it'll be hundreds, if not thousands. Now count all the guns you see on a regular basis, even if you own one and take it to a gun range. It's going to be a fraction of that.
With all that combined, it's no wonder there are more deaths from cars than guns. A single person can make a mistake, and cause a car accident which affects a number of people. With the amount of people driving on the roads, the chance of this happening increases, and you get more accidents. More accidents means more chances for someone to die in them, and as we see from statistics, more people do die from car accidents than guns.
Guns don't kill more people than cars because guns are not generally around a lot of people, and when someone has an accident with a gun, it usually only kills perhaps one person. The number of accidents with guns are low to begin with because most gun owners follow safety precautions. So most gun deaths occur when someone purposefully kills someone (including themselves) with a gun. That's already a rarity.
