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When a gun is used to kill people he wants to ban guns. Strangely, he's not proposing a ban on pressure cookers. Government will use fear to slowly strip us o

When a gun is used to kill people he wants to ban guns. Strangely, he's not proposing a ban on pressure cookers. Government will use fear to slowly strip us of our rights. Why? Because it works really well. He has already made the leap to assume we "Interpret" the US Constitution. It's a pretty clear document that needs little interpretation. We're supposed to amend it, not change are mind on what they really meant.

astrodust 14y ago
When the number of deaths by pressure cookers exceeds the number of death by guns, maybe then.
- sageikosa 14y ago
  The number of guns versus number of (reported) gun related crimes is pretty low. Pretty low for pressure cookers too I would imagine. Not sure what the OSHA guidelines are.
  - astrodust 14y ago
    There's roughly 270 million guns in the USA and every day about 270 shootings. A ratio of one in a million. I'm not sure how many pressure cookers there are in the US, probably in the tens of millions at most. I can't find any data on how many injuries are caused by them, but there'd have to be 10-20 incidents per day for it to measure up to guns in terms of injuries per object. The most common injury from a pressure cooker is a burn. There are about 100 burns requiring medical attention in the US daily (http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php) and it's unlikely that 25% of these are caused by pressure cookers given the wide number of causes of burns.
    - mindcrime 14y ago
      Sounds to me like pressure cookers are quite the danger. I say we implement rigorous background checks before allowing their purchase, keep a database of all purchased pressure cookers, require mandatory training and a seven day waiting period before purchase, and require mandatory lid locks. Also, any pressure cooker with a pistol grip or bayonet lug is clearly an assault cooker and must be banned.
      - astrodust 14y ago
        Kinder Surprise was presumably banned because of the assault variants flooding the market.
- grecy 14y ago
  The number of deaths by cigarettes, cars, fatty food, etc. etc. already far outnumbers the deaths by guns. Are you suggesting we should ban those too?
  - mkr-hn 14y ago
    The risks of everything except cars and guns are opt-in, and cars are heavily regulated.

astrodust 14y ago

When the number of deaths by pressure cookers exceeds the number of death by guns, maybe then.

sageikosa 14y ago
The number of guns versus number of (reported) gun related crimes is pretty low. Pretty low for pressure cookers too I would imagine. Not sure what the OSHA guidelines are.
- astrodust 14y ago
  There's roughly 270 million guns in the USA and every day about 270 shootings. A ratio of one in a million. I'm not sure how many pressure cookers there are in the US, probably in the tens of millions at most. I can't find any data on how many injuries are caused by them, but there'd have to be 10-20 incidents per day for it to measure up to guns in terms of injuries per object. The most common injury from a pressure cooker is a burn. There are about 100 burns requiring medical attention in the US daily (http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php http://www.ameriburn.org/resources_factsheet.php) and it's unlikely that 25% of these are caused by pressure cookers given the wide number of causes of burns.
  - mindcrime 14y ago
    Sounds to me like pressure cookers are quite the danger. I say we implement rigorous background checks before allowing their purchase, keep a database of all purchased pressure cookers, require mandatory training and a seven day waiting period before purchase, and require mandatory lid locks. Also, any pressure cooker with a pistol grip or bayonet lug is clearly an assault cooker and must be banned.
    - astrodust 14y ago
      Kinder Surprise was presumably banned because of the assault variants flooding the market.
grecy 14y ago
The number of deaths by cigarettes, cars, fatty food, etc. etc. already far outnumbers the deaths by guns. Are you suggesting we should ban those too?
- mkr-hn 14y ago
  The risks of everything except cars and guns are opt-in, and cars are heavily regulated.