Nobody is talking about the vast majority just like vast majority of car drivers drive following the rules but the small % that dont...are "regulated" either via fine or if it has resulted in death like via accident....they are jailed but to get a license isnt made easy nor as some states where guns dont need license....to drive a car still does so!
A car and a gun. Each is a tool. One tool is licensed and one is not. Each have been used to commit crimes. And yet the gun is the greater evil even though the car -- as a tool of crime -- commit greater amount of crimes.
Most gun owners do not carry guns on their persons, I am a gun owner and in all my adult yrs of owning guns, I have concealed carry my pistol exactly four times, about once a
DECADE and in each situation there was a higher risk of meeting danger. However, all car owners %99 of the time uses their cars, so inevitably, there would be more car deaths than gun deaths.
But the gun is the greater evil.
I understand that each tool have its original purpose. The car is for transportation. The gun is to kill. But if the justification to control guns is the quantity of deaths, then the original purpose of a tool is irrelevant because the car, despite its original intent, is the greater cause of many more deaths. It does not matter if the car death is from accidents or from misuse, such as deliberately running someone over or use for suicide (carbon monoxide poisoning). The end is still the same -- death.
If you want to control or ban guns because of its design intent -- to kill -- then be honest about it. But do not use quantity of deaths because...
https://fit.thequint.com/health-news/bathtub-death-do-occur-what-you-need-to-know
...Japan's health ministry had launched an investigation in 2012 after it was estimated that 14,000 people died every year in the tub. The number was three times as many as those who died in car accidents.
Fourteen thousands Japanese died in their baths in 2012, whereas the US had 346 mass shootings in 2018.
So from which basis do you want to control guns, intent (to kill) or consequence (death)?
If you want to control or even ban guns based upon design intent -- to kill -- be honest about it, but if you want to control/ban guns based upon quantity of deaths, then you better start with the car and the baths, then come for my guns.
Wiki isnt a great source but nonetheless, like I said few posts earlier...No one is talking about snatching your or the guns of responsible citizens, one is only asking that guns dont fall in the hands of lunatics!
How do you determine if the prospective gun buyer is a 'lunatic'? What do
YOU propose the method(s)?
And many a times it is as simple as increasing the age and doing a good background check....Those states that allow you to buy a gun without license : Among U.S. states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho (residents only), Kansas,Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota (residents only; concealed carry only), Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming (residents only) are fully unrestricted, and allow those who are not prohibited from owning a firearm....THIS needs to be reformed!
Here is a map of mass shootings in 2018...
There is a map of US states with the most restrictive gun laws with gun deaths. Be prepared to be surprised when you superimpose the two maps.
Yea but which AMERICAN state allow you to drive without a license?
Here is vehicle regulation:
Vehicle regulations are requirements that automobiles must satisfy in order to be approved for sale or use in a particular country or region. They are usually mandated by legislation, and administered by a government body. The regulations concern aspects such as lighting, controls, crashworthiness, environment protection and theft protection.
That is not the point. Death is the point.
You mean terrorized the world? You helped only Europe...that too by dropping atomic bombs on Japan! Considered the most henious crime...In Vietnam also you showed a barbaric side of yourselves! Korean war, Gulf war....Kind of sounds like a war monger-er coz you need market for your guns!
If you want to debate those wars, start another thread. But this comment only proved what I said about you earlier -- that you are more interested in satisfying your need to feel morally superior to US. Not that you know what you are talking about.
MOST of the world is annoyed by school shootings in America as well as the gun culture.
Why? The mass shootings are in the US, not in their countries.
They have other problems like barely enough to eat, religious and political oppression, and/or lousy governance.
Do you really thing the French are 'annoyed' by US mass shootings when they are rioting in the streets over a proposed fuel tax increase?
No, the reality is more prosaic -- that you need US and our problems to escape yours.
