School Shooting in South Florida

[Medisti]

dirtylemons said:

Medisti said:

I was more poking fun at the logical fallacy that a gun is a weapon created for the sole purpose of killing or wounding things, whereas an automobile is designed for transportation and not explicitly to run over people.

But more people are killed in automobile-related incidents than in firearm-related incidents (even including suicides, which are the majority of firearm-related deaths), despite there being more guns in the U.S. than automobiles. So vehicles are undoubtedly a bigger killer.

That's another lovely fallacy that is technically true but is actually specious reasoning. The vast majority of auto-related deaths are accidental or due to negligence due to the sheer amount of traffic in the country every day. Intentional murder with a vehicle happens, but pales in comparison to the amount of intentional murders with firearms.

Not to mention quantity. Every car on the road, millions and millions of them each day, has a chance to crash and kill someone. People spend more time driving or riding in cars than they do firing their guns. The list could go on.