o_O.Q said:
Normchacho said:
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.
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how did they interview the dead guys who killed themselves to get that data?
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Are you serious? Like...really? I can think of very, very few scenarios where you would need to interview the victim first hand to determine if they had acess to firearms...
Edit: This is the problem with the gun discussion in America as a whole, one side has a set belief about guns and won't let anything tell them otherwise. A gut feeling takes the place of actual data. And don't think I'm just saying that because I don't like guns. I actually do like guns, I've fired several in my life and if you had asked me when I was 17 or 18 if I planned on buying any guns, I would have said yes. But now that I've gotten a bit older and done my research, the benefits of owning firearms is greatly outweighted by the risks.
