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libdem4life

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49. That's the law if you get a DUI ... can't pass a background check for a weapon ...

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:14 PM

Dec 2012

and that's the best scenario...can't get insurance, can't get a job, ... at least in California. Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD) should be the poster moms of this newest carnage.

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Wow! Gun deaths set to out strip automobile fatalities [View all] cthulu2016 Dec 2012 OP

In any event, people don't buy cars for the express purpose of killing other people with them. djean111 Dec 2012 #1

well, maybe not people you know cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #3

It looks like over half are suicides. I would like to see that addressed. Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #18

And several of the murders are simply by products of suicides, jtuck004 Dec 2012 #27

It would not surprise me at all Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #39

>If we could get to those people who are depressed < We are swimming in them. jtuck004 Dec 2012 #46

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

Why not license guns like cars? htuttle Dec 2012 #2

because cars aren't licensed? cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #5

And yet -- the privilege to use one is! villager Dec 2012 #6

Really? htuttle Dec 2012 #7

Registered, taxed, and insurance required (if it is going to be operated) jberryhill Dec 2012 #10

Actually... bobclark86 Dec 2012 #31

How precious...and a car on a non-op or an agricultural vehicle is OK on private property, too. libdem4life Dec 2012 #35

They already are. Atypical Liberal Dec 2012 #43

And domestic terrorists don't usually fire rounds on kids on their own private property. That, too libdem4life Dec 2012 #47

Poverty kills more than cars & I AM ALL IN FOR ENDING POVERTY! HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #4

+!000. Especially poverty caused by the financial sector and propped up by their lackeys jtuck004 Dec 2012 #28

Because killing is not the intended use of a car; NYC Liberal Dec 2012 #8

The improvements in auto safety are truly remarkable jberryhill Dec 2012 #9

GREAT arguement! This guy drove his volvo into an elementary school rustydog Dec 2012 #11

Not much into that reading thing, eh? cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #14

years ago some guy drove a car into the podium of a kkk rally... HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #20

Yeah, but JoeyT Dec 2012 #34

+100000000 Glassunion Dec 2012 #41

We got us some Gallows Humor .. indeed ! libdem4life Dec 2012 #48

Our shitty infrastructure relies on cars RedCappedBandit Dec 2012 #12

Cars are heavily regulated regarding safety, efficiency, emissions, aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2012 #13

FOR USE IN PUBLIC! bobclark86 Dec 2012 #32

Please proceed, then, Citizen. You'll get no quarrel from most of us here. LOL libdem4life Dec 2012 #36

Please proceed. n/t CottonBear Dec 2012 #40

ALL CAPS! progressoid Dec 2012 #45

Feel free to drive your homemade rocket fuel powered car from your driveway into your garage aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2012 #51

Well, it WOULD cut down on pollution. Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #15

Easy answer: The purpose of cars is not to terminate human life. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #16

When cars kill too many people like the Ford Pinto we make them safer JeffHead Dec 2012 #17

So about 20,000 Americans kill themselves with.... Bonhomme Richard Dec 2012 #19

Approximately, yes. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #25

Wow, I am amazed to see that. malthaussen Dec 2012 #22

62% are suicide. How very sad. We need to do something. nt. NCTraveler Dec 2012 #23

That depends. Not every suicide is a wrong that should have been righted. eallen Dec 2012 #30

Legalize drugs, would cut way down on the other 38% pediatricmedic Dec 2012 #33

You know, maybe we should take guns away from people that have DUI's Ganja Ninja Dec 2012 #24

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

Intent defines an accident. Glassunion Dec 2012 #42

And car fatalities are DOWN significantly as a result of safety and anti-DUI laws Tab Dec 2012 #29

Tax the bejesus out of guns, and we'd be able to afford the regulation and the mayhem and death libdem4life Dec 2012 #37

And with that goes another NRA talking point ShadowLiberal Dec 2012 #38

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

I think one of the ten myths that non gunners upaloopa Dec 2012 #53