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To: pepsionice

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.


4 posted on 09/04/2015 10:48:25 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile killed more people than all of my firearms.


6 posted on 09/04/2015 10:58:49 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Sasparilla

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


10 posted on 09/04/2015 11:56:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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