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...A Chevy Tahoe, for example, kills 122 people for every 1 million models on the road...

Bwahahahahaha! When SUV's attack!

I've yet to see one of them start themselves up and go out around town looking for innocent victims.

Maybe these renegades are being driven by runaway assault rifles. Have to be a rifle, a handgun couldn't reach the pedals.

"...I've yet to see one of them start themselves up and go out around town looking for innocent victims...."

Your are just parroting one of Rush Limbaugh's weaker conceits. "SUV's don't kill, the drivers of SUV's kill."

That may be true as far as it goes, but it does not refute the foundation of the cited statistic. A Large SUV is more likely to kill passengers of a car in which it is involved in an accident than a smaller passenger car like a Honda accord. Pressumably, in a large population the drivers of Hondas and Tahoes are of equal ability (although the SUV driver is likely to have a higher testosterone level). Therefore, it must be the size and nature of the vehicle that accounts for the kill rate discrepancy. Thus, the nature of the SUV itself is dangerous.

The writer of this article is clearly a left-wing sissy. Having said that, he makes some valid points.

I don't have anything against SUVs, but many people buy them for the wrong reasons. As a result, quite a few people are dead or paralyzed right now and a lot of hydrocarbons have been wasted. It's a free country, but that doesn't excuse stupid decision making.