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dirtylemons on 15 February 2018
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Medisti said:
dirtylemons said:

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.

So the fact that almost three times as many people die in the U.S. from automobile-related incidents than firearm-related homicides is inconsequential because one is intentional and the other could largely be attributed to negligence? It would seem that many lives lost are actually worth noting, but apparently it's okay to sweep them under the rug when it hinders an argument.

And automobile-related deaths are virtually always the fault of at least one driver. Mass traffic alone doesn't account for more than an infinitesimal amount of these deaths.