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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 07:49 AM Jul 2012

Cars don’t kill people but drivers with guns can try

Whenever some fruitcake with a cache of guns opens fire and takes out innocents, the gun nuts trot out the tied old argument that more people die in car accidents than in gun-related incidents.

Yeah, a lot of people die on the road.

There are more than 250 million vehicles registered in the United States and most Americans spend hours every day on the road. Most vehicle-related deaths come from accidents. They don’t come from some loon driving his Hummer into a crowded movie theater and snuffing out a dozen lives while leaving 50 or so wounded.

True, some people use vehicles for homicidal purposes but many more turn to a loaded weapon that uses gunpowder to discharge a projectile with a singular purpose — to inflict damage on a target.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/44479

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Cars don’t kill people but drivers with guns can try (Original Post) SecularMotion Jul 2012 OP
Fruitcake + gun cache? Remmah2 Jul 2012 #1
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