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You throw the number (1/10,000 chance) like it's low but I think that's fairly high. You cite crashing motorcycles but the total US deaths by traffic accidents
by Steko 11y ago
You throw the number (1/10,000 chance) like it's low but I think that's fairly high. You cite crashing motorcycles but the total US deaths by traffic accidents was close to 1/10,000 in the most recent years [1]. You ask if we want to ban motorcycles but motorcyles aren't used to murder people, we ban or heavily regulate lots of things that are more generally harmful (explosives, lead, asbestos, radium, DDT, CFCs, etc.) many of which caused fewer deaths than firearms when they were legal.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
- aianus 11y agoFirearms are not generally used to murder people, they're generally used to poke holes in suspended pieces of paper or look pretty or make the owner feel safe or hunt animals. They're very rarely used to murder people relative to their other uses.
- Steko 11y agoNot sure where you think I claimed that the only or chief use of firearms was to murder people. The main use of lead, asbestos and DDT were also not to cause health problems but they were still banned. OTOH firearms are overwhelmingly the most common way people get murdered in the US today, so to say they're 'rarely used to murder people' is to only look at the question from one side.