Calm down buddy... No need to wave the "I'm the biggest asshole ever" flag.... I'm willing to talk about it.
You're right, more people do die in auto accidents than from nukes and that includes from shootings! Auto accidents are the leading cause of deaths for children of all ages. Not once have I seen the president up there saying we've had enough, we can't go on like this. Despite the fact that many kids who die in auto accidents will die a much more horrible death. And one at a time doesn't make it any better than 20 at a time.
I'll tell you what I do see... I see irresponsible automakers plastering the TV with commercial after commercial showing cars trucks and motorcycles speeding their asses off and promoting all other sorts of reckless behavior to sell their cars. And yup, that's what kills most people and most kids.... But hey, let's change the constitution and America for what some retard did on meds
That sounds like the bigger priority... fracking brilliant!!!
I have to keep posting this, because Gun Nuts aren't the deepest thinkers, but cars, trucks, trains and the whole transport system serve an obvious community benefit, individuals benefit from the system. Citizens on the other hand owning guns, serves NO Community benefit, the HARM vs GOOD benefit to the community is out of balance, Gun Ownership causes more harm than good, hence the reason they are frequently the target of advocates who want to eliminate them from public consumption. Normal citizens, the ones who aren't deeply self centred and community minded, weigh up the community benefit to individual loss ratio when deciding on what should be restricted and what shouldn't. And GUNS bring way more HARM than GOOD to the community as opposed to cars and the Transport system. BIG DIFFERENCE
I remember reading a study years ago about the cost to society from noise complaints regarding neighbours, and I remember they compared people who lived alongside a railway line with those who lived next door to noisy neighbours. You would think that they would both be equally negatively impacted by the regular intrusions into their household living, but the people who lived next to the railway line were far better off, they discovered that they rationalised the situation and weighed up the community benefit that trains provide against the general annoyance they felt when hearing the trains, and also because of the predictable nature of trains and the fact they knew that the noise was short lived, it made the situation bearable, unlike the neighbour who had rowdy neighbours, it was impossible to judge when the neighbours would cause the disturbance, nor how long it would go on for, and the noise almost always served no community benefit, it was always a selfish indulgence by the neighbour. These factors, No Community benefit and Predictability were major factors on the negative impact on individuals and to the community at large (the handling of noise complaints cost a lot of money, also sometimes people were killed over it) when handling Noise Complaints.
And this is the Issue, individuals who aren't obsessed with GUNS and don't feel the need to own one, get ZERO benefit from their neighbours owning guns and mass shooting are impossible to predict (statistically, they are INEVITABLE in America) when and where they will happen next, putting the average citizen in a fearful state (this is the state GUN NUTTERS prey on, hoping that if everyone becomes afraid enough, they will finally cave in too the GUN NUTTERS and buy a GUN for so called protection, even though STATS show you are more likely to be killed during a crime if you have a gun than if you don't). The average NORMAL citizen will weigh up the benefit of something as opposed to the risk to their health when advocating for something, and the actuarial risk of individual gun ownership for citizens has now become so great, and the benefit/loss ratio so unbalanced, that the general community is now at GREAT Risk due to a selfish individual privilege granted to citizens by the Government. Communities Interests must come first for them to be SAFE, SECURE and HEALTHY, selfish Interest will always erode any Community! Time for Individuals to grow up and put their communities first, and ironically, the Individual will also prosper.