Re: Democrats Immediately Call For Gun Control After Las Vegas Shooting
And we have a way more deaths/injuries from cars...more than another country probably too, since we are so in love with our cars.
Time to limit who owns what cars and how many?
Yes, I'm not sure if you are aware or not, but we limit motor vehicles in many ways.
- we have special licensing for larger vehicles
- seatbekt and crash test requirements, child seating laws
- drivers tests, licensing, countless laws of the road including speed limits
- police that routinely patrol and have special units directly assigned to traffic
- traffic lights, street lights, regulations that govern road design, curves, distances to intersections, etc.
Are you suggesting we need a similar litany of restrictions on firearms? I agree! But ultimately we will likely create dramatic decreases once automated driving is perfected and ubiquitous. So yes, it's an all around work in progress that's in the right direction.
But then this isn't a thread about the dangers of automobiles, is it?
(And no, we dont 'need' them. If people were so concerned, there are many options and lifestyles, just like in other Western countries, to go without or use much less. But convenience overcomes THOSE numbers of dead.)
Transportation, especially in areas that do not and largely cannot benefit from mass transit, is critical to nearly everything in modern life.
Firearms, especially in the broad case of nearly anything-goes in the U.S., is clearly is not similar in that way. Heart disease, Cancer, Old Age, these are bigger killers, and I'm also concerned about them. Which has no real relevance to how the U.S. with it's wild-west approach, compares to nearly every successful/developed nation that has far more comprehensive gun control, and typically far lower homicide rates as well as obviously gun crime rates.
