Is it time to ban cars? (gun owner, AR15, million)

[logline]

Originally Posted by bchris02

Over 40,000 people die in car accidents every year. Does anybody think its time for the government to make the automobile illegal?

You have to pass a written test, pass an eye exam and pay registration fees every year to own a car.

To own a gun, you just have to fog a mirror.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by pch1013

So let's take your ideas to their logical extreme:

"If everyone had a car, no one would die in crashes."

"If everyone had a pool, no one would drown."

See how ridiculous those sound? Yet that's exactly what you're proposing for guns.

Most cars don't stop collisions (not yet) and swimming pools cannot be used to stop drownings, but a gun can definitely be used to stop a shooter.

The reason why mass shootings go on for more than a couple seconds is because the masses being shot cannot shoot back.

Had the 39 teachers in this school been armed, the shooter would not have had ten uninterrupted minutes to slaughter kids.

[SLCPUNK]

Originally Posted by bchris02

Over 40,000 people die in car accidents every year. Does anybody think its time for the government to make the automobile illegal?

Are you not able to differentiate between accidents and first degree murders?

[SLCPUNK]

Originally Posted by momonkey

Most cars don't stop collisions (not yet) and swimming pools cannot be used to stop drownings, but a gun can definitely be used to stop a shooter.

Oh please.

How many of these mass shootings have been stopped by shooters who were not law enforcement?

[Mr. Opinionated]

No. Sane people don't grab a car to go kill people

[L'Artiste]

The purpose of a car is to drive it and that only , sure it be used as a weapn but that's not its sole purpose. What's the purpose of a gun other then to kill something? At least with a knife you can cut an apple , a slice of bread or to use it for something else other then killing. Like a car , it's very useful with intent to harm.

[Marv101]

These liberal extremists and their environmental zealots have been decimating livings standard and quality of life for the middle class and everybody else for decades; look at what they've done to California over the past four decades.

Banning cars. Sure Einstein!

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by logline

You have to pass a written test, pass an eye exam and pay registration fees every year to own a car.

To own a gun, you just have to fog a mirror.

And you don't even have to do that to vote.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Mr. Opinionated

No. Sane people don't grab a car to go kill people

and sane people don't grab a gun and go kill people.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by L'Artiste

The purpose of a car is to drive it and that only , sure it be used as a weapn but that's not its sole purpose. What's the purpose of a gun other then to kill something? At least with a knife you can cut an apple , a slice of bread or to use it for something else other then killing. Like a car , it's very useful with intent to harm.

Millions of gun owners have never killed anything. I know many who just enjoy the sport of target shooting. Maybe you aren't aware, but guns are a part of the Olympics.