For many years, the discussion about gun control has usually included this exchange:
A. "Well, cars kill more people than guns, so why don't you ban them?"
B. "Because cars serve another purposes. And we do license all car drivers and make them take classes and require them to carry insurance."
A. "That's because carrying guns is a Constitutional right, and driving is only a privilege."
And then people start screaming at each other.
Without delving again into the gun control debate, I just wanted to note a key part of the above that's beginning to not be true: motor vehicle fatalities are way down, beginning to drop close to gunshot fatalities nationwide and actually below them in several states (including Colorado).
Not that it necessarily proves anything, but it may mark the end of one of the rhetorical talking points over gun control.
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Gun Deaths Are Becoming More Common Than Motor Vehicle Fatalities
A man shot and killed three people in a home in Colorado this morning before turning his handgun on himself. The murder-suicide is generating a fair amount of headlines today, no doubt largely because…
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