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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)You did nothing to address that problem, nor the fact that it could be preempted by arresting people for drinking, or installing interlocks in every automobile.
I take it you've never followed a drunk driver with the police on the line, trying to vector them in while the drunk driver is bumping guardrails, running red lights, hell, she bumped a motorcycle right in front of me. Could have been a fatality easy, but luck, sheer luck was on his side.
You are taking a position that has incredibly unpopular logical and principled applications, beyond firearms. Auto fatalities is now below total firearm related deaths, but deduct, say, suicides from both, and your public safety perspective shifts violently on which is the best bang for your buck, trying to save lives.
There are other nations that share that civil right, that have murder rates that are tiny compared to ours. If you want to make a case that american culture has proven itself unworthy of respecting that right, that's an interesting debate we can have. But don't pretend the problem is because of the availability of firearms, because there are nations that can demonstrate otherwise.
Americans are very violent. Take gun deaths out of the picture and rank us against Europe. Its appalling.