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[Spoonman]

license and register guns, and it will NOT make one shits bit of difference to prevent this from happening!

If it does nothing to prevent this type of incident, why impose more restrictions on our rights?

I use cars, because they cause more deaths and they ARE registered, required by law to have insurance, and you have to be licensed to drive them.

Even with these "laws", people still drive drunk, and people still are killed by the negligence of the operator.

People use cars as weapons to run over friends, cheating husbands and strangers!

Although there are fewer intentional homicides from cars than guns, the point being made is simple for most.

Your side claims 90,000 dead and injured each year. Approximately 10,000 are intentional homicides, with 30,000 total fatalities.

Cars kill 42,900 people a year, you do not seem to be screaming for more regulations or bans to reduce this number, and if you were, you would get the same response from car enthusiasts. Automotive manufacturers are not, and never have been liable for the criminal misuse of their products. They have not and never will be required to engineer "safety" features that will prevent the misuse of their products.

Alcohol is an even bigger problem. 100,000 deaths a year and it is a contributing factor in a huge number of accidental deaths, suicides and aggravated assaults resulting in death.

It is highly regulated, more so than cars, but more laws have failed to curtail this "menace" to society.

How many times have you ever gone off on a rant to hold the distilleries accountable for their products misuse?

Distilleries have never been liable for the resulting consequences of the use of their products, and will not ever be required to engineer "safety" features that will prevent the misuse of their products.

I would venture to say that 100,000 deaths annually is what, a little over three times the rate of gun related fatalities?
Sounds to me like it would be a little higher on the list with someone who is truly concerned about the safety of humanity.

Maybe what the RKBA crowd is truly up against is a bunch of people who are afraid of or just do not like guns, not people who care about "safety".