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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We sacrifice 40,000 people to the automobile a year, and driving isn't even mentioned in the Constitution. So probably some multiple of that. [/quote]

That’s a false equivalency though.  Driving has multiple prosocial purposes.  Guns have one purpose: killing.

Mass shootings aren’t an accidental byproduct of some other activity, they [i]are[/i] the activity.[/quote]

I wouldn't call driving a prosocial activity though. Not on an individual or social level. The car has led to the destruction of the American landscape, the isolation of people from their communities and a crushing financial burden. The car kills people, cities and nations. Guns only kill people. [/quote]
I'm an urbanist who's into dense, mixed-use development and public transit - but I recognize that I'm in the minority and we live in a car-centric society. We accept 40,000 automobile deaths because that represents a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of billions of car trips each year that do not result in crashes. The ratio of gun deaths to non-lethal gun uses is orders of magnitude higher, so bringing cars into a discussion about guns is nothing but noise.[/quote]

Now calculate the number of deaths per 100,000 cars and 100,000 guns.[/quote]

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