No, you assume incorrectly. Perhaps I wasn't as clear in my phrasing as I ought to have been. I don't automatically assume someone with a gun is going to shoot me, though where I live it would be such an unusual occurrence that nefarious purpose would have to be high on the list of motives. What I actually meant by what I said was that while someone behind the wheel of several tons of screeching metal could just as easily kill many people at once, as recent events showed, the number of people who would actually do so is undoubtedly miniscule; and far outweighed by the number of people carrying weapons even if the majority of them will never do so.
Incidentally, I only made such comparisons to guns because you brought it up.
Incidentally, I only made such comparisons to guns because you brought it up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
