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).