A car is a deadly weapon. There are great ways to prevent being 'dragged out and beaten' like for example locking your doors and gently pushing through a crowd

A car is a deadly weapon. There are great ways to prevent being 'dragged out and beaten' like for example locking your doors and gently pushing through a crowd slowly should you find yourself, somehow agenda-less, surrounded by protesters. It's a straw-man scenario anyway. These rare incidents are set against the statistics of many injuries and deaths from cars running over innocent people. A car is an incredibly deadly weapon, capable of killing or maiming people as fast as a semi-automatic rifle. Anybody who runs their car over somebody should be prosecuted and liable to be sued penniless, because the immense responsibility of operating a deadly machine lies with them and nobody else.