Obama Admin Caves: ATF Halts Assault on Inalienable Rights

[Normchacho]

SocialistSlayer said:

Normchacho said:

And how much effort goes into reducing deaths caused by drunk driving?  Last time I checked it's super illegal to drink and drive. Oh, and drunk driving deaths have been going down for a long time now.

its also super illegal to carry a gun while drunk

True, and mixing alchohol and guns is very, very dangerous. But those aren't the same thing. A car, when not mixed with alchohol, is a pretty pedestrian thing. With roughly 1 fatality for every 90 million miles driven, even including drunk driving related deaths. Guns, are dangerous even when not mixed with alchohol.

The other reason they don't really make for a 1:1 comparison, is that cars have a lot of upsides. It would be pretty much impossible for me to get to school or work without a car, and that's true for a lot of people.

Guns, on the other hand...Not so much. Many of the percevied benefits of gun ownership don't actually hold water when put under scrutiny. Especially when talking about self defense. A study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that as gun prevelance goes up, so does crime. On top of that, an annalysis of 15 studies done by the Annals of Internal Medicine found that men with acess to guns are 4 times as likely to commit suicide, or be murdered, than men who don't have acess to guns. Women, were 3 times as likely.