Posted on 09/04/2015 10:22:12 AM PDT by rktman
Like a sledge hammer falling on a glass table, Duke Researcher Chris Conover has dropped scholarly methods and results on the anti-gun rhetoric regarding gun ownership versus car ownership to show that owning a car is “80 percent” riskier than owning a gun, as it relates to the lives of others.
Conover is Research Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well, I’m certain my @$$ is smarter than Heb!
There are various statistical threats that you invent to compare. If you owned forty cobra snakes....it’s a bigger chance you will die from a snake-bite than a gunshot wound. If you were married to a bi-polar gal, it’s probably a five-to-one chance you will go to the hospital at least once in a five-year period. If you choose to walk through Birmingham on a Saturday night, it’s a fifty percent chance you will be robbed.
Driving those highly regulated vehicles while drinking is highly regulated, yet over 10,000 are killed every year by drunk drivers.
Someone is injured every two minutes by a drunk driver.
As with a firearm, the biggest danger from a car comes from its operator.
That's nothing. If you walk through Washington D.C., it is nearly 100%. (If the muggers don't get you, the Congress will).
Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile killed more people than all of my firearms.
Bfl
With self-driving cars, there should not be any need for drivers licenses. Just the car would be licensed.
If the car misbehaves, the owner would be liable..
I took a breif look at the Breitbart article. It looks to me that owning a car is about 80 times more dangerous, not 80%.
253 million cars, 32,919 fatal accidents = 7733 cars per fatal accident.
363 million firearms, 505 fatal accidents = 718,812 firearms per fatal accident. 718,812/7733 = 93 times as many fatal accidents per vehicle as per firearm.
But, I was using the latest, best numbers:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/08/fatal-firearm-accidents-vs-private-gun.html
Should be 32,719 fatal vehicle accidents, not 32,919. The calculations were with the correct number.
The facts won’t matter to the gun grabbers over on #Gunsense.
They’ve been fighting an uphill battle against reality for years now.
Years? If we include their predecessors, decades.
Yes, you are correct - Reality and Logic aren’t their friends.
They can only argue based on emotions and Feeeeelinnnngs..
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