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In reply to the discussion: Wow! Gun deaths set to out strip automobile fatalities [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)47. And domestic terrorists don't usually fire rounds on kids on their own private property. That, too
would be illegal. Same with the vehicle ...kill someone on your private property with it...accident or on purpose...it's illegal. Pull it out onto the open road...even a tractor...and you have to obey the law.
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In any event, people don't buy cars for the express purpose of killing other people with them.
djean111
Dec 2012
#1
What you described is an often-overlooked consequence of mass gun ownership
Democracyinkind
Dec 2012
#52
Plus, a typical person will spend more time operating a vehicle than operating a firearm.
bulloney
Dec 2012
#21
How precious...and a car on a non-op or an agricultural vehicle is OK on private property, too.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#35
And domestic terrorists don't usually fire rounds on kids on their own private property. That, too
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#47
+!000. Especially poverty caused by the financial sector and propped up by their lackeys
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#28
Cars are heavily regulated regarding safety, efficiency, emissions,
aint_no_life_nowhere
Dec 2012
#13
Please proceed, then, Citizen. You'll get no quarrel from most of us here. LOL
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#36
Feel free to drive your homemade rocket fuel powered car from your driveway into your garage
aint_no_life_nowhere
Dec 2012
#51
That's the law if you get a DUI ... can't pass a background check for a weapon ...
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#49
I hadn't realized that suicides were such a big component of the gun death numbers.
DeschutesRiver
Dec 2012
#26
Tax the bejesus out of guns, and we'd be able to afford the regulation and the mayhem and death
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#37
Cars have been ever-engineered to be safer, while guns have been ever-engineered to be more deadly.
Atypical Liberal
Dec 2012
#44
True. More reason why guns should be treated as cars...speaking of the ability to regulate and
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#50