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JimMorrison said:
Gun control is a great subject for you to bring up, because it is such a hard issue. The best answer that I can offer you, is that twice as many people die in motor vehicle accidents, as die from violence in all forms (in the US itself).
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That's a total bull**** comparison, IMHO. Car accidents are an unwanted byproduct of public transportation. "Violence in all forms" sounds like a very active act compared to that. People aren't shooting bullets just to kill time or say hello to each other, or are they? To get a fair comparison you'd have to compare fatal car accidents with fatal
accidents involving firearms, where the death toll from car accidents are probably a lot higher because of its continuous use unless maybe you factor in the total amount of time that people are driving versus aiming and firing, too, but to be able to be really comparable lots of people would have to be facing each other and shoot at the same time. Or you'd have to compare the death toll from people consciously running over / crashing into people with a car to kill them versus shooting them with a gun, where the guns will trump the stats by far, with the utmost probability.