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Social movements and Gun attitudes

nekrodev said:
You're conflating things that are are entirely different, though. Alcohol deaths are things people bring on themselves. Car-related deaths are largely accidental. Gun deaths are mostly intentional suicides and the rest are largely intentional homicides.

This also completely throws out all of the other regulations that cars have that guns don't.
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Is there a constitutional right to keep and use cars? Do you have to have a background check to buy a car at a retail dealer? Can you buy cars across state lines? Can you own cars that outperform anything the police have? Is your driver's license valid in all fifty states? Can you get one before you turn 21?
 
nekrodev said:
A DUI is not "alcohol". A DUI is vehicular crime that doesn't even require alcohol - you could easily be high on a drug instead.
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While I would normally agree with this statement, I got the numbers from deaths that are alcohol based. That 10-11k is all drunk driving. Alcohol itself kills more people than guns every year including suicides.

Don't get me wrong, there is a problems with guns in society that needs to be addressed. I personally think a large part of the problem deals with poverty and education, not really the guns themselves. You just have to be careful of making statements like "alcohol murders insignificant numbers" there are way too many arguments that could follow.
 
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