"The CDC’s WONDER public health database shows that 39,773 people died from firearms last year. That works out to a gun death rate of 12.0 per 100,000 people — higher than the rate of death from car accidents of 11.5 per 100,000 people, once the leading cause of fatal injury." https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/gun-death-rate-2017-increase-cdc-suicide/ This is concerning. The car ownership rate is more than double the gun ownership rate. The average American is much more likely to be regularly exposed to the risks of using a car than using a gun. But somehow gun deaths have surpassed car deaths.....
Treat guns like other public safety issues. "We don’t ban cars, but we work hard to regulate them – and limit access to them – so as to reduce the death toll they cause. This has been spectacularly successful, reducing the death rate per 100 million miles driven by 95 percent since 1921." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/06/opinion/how-to-reduce-shootings.html
So get enough people to support laws that are Constitutional, effective, enforceable and would be enforced. Rights are not dependent upon statistics.
"What I have said is precisely what you suggested, which is why don’t we treat this like every other thing that we use? We used to have really bad auto fatality rates. The auto fatality rate has actually dropped precipitously, drastically, since I was a kid. Why is that? We decided we had seatbelt laws. We decided to have manufacturers put airbags in place. We decided to crack down on drunk driving and texting. We decided to redesign roads so that they were less likely to have a car bank. We studied what is causing these fatalities using science and data and evidence, and then we slowly treated it like the public health problem it was, and it got reduced. We are not allowed to do any of that when it comes to guns because people -- if you propose anything, it is suggested that we're trying to wipe away gun rights and impose tyranny and martial law. Do you know that Congress will not allow the Centers for Disease Control to study gun violence? They're not allowed to study it because the notion is, is that by studying it, the same way we do with traffic accidents, somehow that's going to lead to everybody's gun being confiscated." -Barack Obama
Subtract out suicides and the gun death rate shrinks to less than 6 per 100,000. I don't think it is correct to include the suicides because the majority of those people would simply find another way. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-20-000-people-die-gun-suicide-each-year-alarmed-n906796
I already started an old thread on this: gun deaths have now exceeded car deaths - but that's only due to spike in suicides Sorry Galileo, beat you to it.
Once again to point out the obvious. The right to arms is a Constitutional guarantee. The right to a car is not.
If we all started walking to get where we needed to go and carrying bats for protection we could save thousands of lives. And if we could get everyone to stop eating at McDonald's and Burger King.....
That is why we must balance freedom with safety. Extremists on both sides are wrong.....but we have very very lax gun laws in the US
Yes and both are illegal....which makes it harder to do those things and get away with it....but not impossible
Interestingly I believe neither should be illegal. If a person wants more than one spouse I'm good with that. If a person has been convicted of a felony and served their time then they should have all their rights reinstated. Live and let live.
I don't really disagree with you depending on the felony but the point remains that all rights have restrictions
There are different rules for federal or state laws such as filibuster requirements.....some may require two thirds majority and some simple majority...then you have veto rules as well Are you not an American?
