Defend yourselves? From what? From the bogey man? If it's "foreign invaders" you are worried about, don't worry - you have a more than capable military who can take care of that. You don't need to have armed red necks, gang bangers, psychos and criminals armed with semi-automatic assault weapons to protect against hypothetical foreign invaders. And in any case, military technology is such that any foreign invaders are hardly coming to come as physical people carrying guns...
Man you guys are stupid.
Terrorists win if we give up our freedoms.
These stats are from the CDC website:
•In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1
•Of the 1,149 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2013, 200 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1
•Of the 200 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2013, over half (121) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.1
•In 2012, over 1.3 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.3 That's one percent of the 121 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.4
•Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are often used in combination with alcohol.5
Should we ban cars?