RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
December 18, 2012 at 5:37 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2012 at 5:44 am by orogenicman.)
(December 18, 2012 at 12:09 am)Annik Wrote: Speaking of cars, why don't be outlaw them as well? Your number for gun fatalities comes out to between 11,000 and 12,000 deaths a year. Cars caused 35,900 deaths in 2009 (over 5,000 of which were merely pedestrians).
Because cars are not designed specifically to kill people, though some that have been notoriously good at it have been taken out of production or otherwise modified. On the other hand, guns ARE designed with one goal in mind - to kill. And unlike gun manufacturers (and theirminions in the NRA) car manufacturers have made efforts to make cars safer, and are continuing to do so. And our governments have made efforts to keep people out from behind the wheel of those cars who would present a danger to society. Very little effort, in fact, has gone into preventing dangerous people from obtaining guns and other weapons.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
