2007-03-21 17:04:59 · 24 answers · asked by slipknotserge 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
But give details!Of example give me statistics, or stuff like that!
2007-03-21 17:08:43 · update #1
Cars.
You do the math.
• Firearms are involved in 0.6% of accidental deaths nationally. Most accidental deaths involve, or are due to, motor vehicles (39%), poisoning (18%), falls (16%), suffocation (5%), drowning (3%), fires (3%), medical mistakes (2%), environmental factors (1%), and bicycles and tricycles (1%). Among children: motor vehicles (45%), suffocation (18%), drowning (14%), fires (9%), bicycles and tricycles (2%), poisoning (2%), falls (2%), environmental factors (2%), and medical mistakes (1%).
2007-03-21 18:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone already gave you stats, so I'll give you what I know (or don't) from life. I am a cop in a town of 70,000. Not to small, not Chicago...a couple hours south actually. I have been to three fatal car crashes in the past 6 months. A total of six people died in these accidents. I have been to countless car crashes in which people were hurt. It is true I have been to a "man with a gun" call or two as well. However, no one was ever harmed in these "gun" calls. Which do I think is more dangerous? A car, by far. There are more on the road. There are more being operated by incompetent people. True "bad guys" use guns. But "bad guys" use other weapons as well. Face it nearly everyone uses a car.
2007-03-21 19:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by wfsgymwear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Automobiles. Before the advent of helmet laws more kids were killed in the USA by bicycle accidents than firearms, swimming pools still kill more. Doctors kill more people than firearms. Last I heard someone dies from an auto accident like once every three or ten seconds. You don't have a Constitutional "right" to own or operate a motor vehicle, that is the bit most people forget. AAA or National Transportation Safety Board shoudl be able to provide you with accident statistics, the NRA with firearm deaths, anti-firearm groups (such as those sponsored by George Soros) never tell the truth, always inflate, double, triple, etc. the statistics, and when cornered by the truth always invoke the "ends justify the means" left wing crap. There is no doubt, a lot of hunting or "firearms accidents" that are actually suicides that would reap no insurance benefits, or murders the police don't want on their books as "unresolved crimes".
2007-03-21 17:18:20 · answer #3 · answered by theshadowknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cars are more dangerous. You can take out way more people at once with a car than your average gun. As far as statistics your normal democrat will give you some bizzare misconstrued made up ones. Beware.
2007-03-21 17:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by luvzhorses1990 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your perspective. From a city-based Westernized view, cars are far more dangerous, as far more people have much more contact with cars than with guns on a moment-to-moment basis.
Worldwide, I'd say stupidity is the most dangerous of all..
2007-03-21 17:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Forget about statistic, use your head. Guns and automobiles are inanimate. They are as safe , or as dangerous as the person using them. It is the person who is safe, or dangerous, not the inanimate object, which can do nothinhg on its own.
2007-03-22 00:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once saw this stat mbut I don't know where it is.
Our younger troups are safer in Iraq then driving around drunk back in the states. More likly to get in a car accident then shot by an issurgant.
2007-03-21 17:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The person behind the gun or behind the wheel...is the
gravest danger..I have owned guns ever since I was
big enough to tote one...I have never hurt myself or
any one else with my guns....I have driven my cars ever
since I was old enough to drive ...I have never hurt anyone
or cause damage to anyone with my cars...
But to pick one I'd have to say "Cars", because there are
more people driving cars than there are toting guns!
2007-03-21 17:13:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are neutral. People are what make them dangerous. Cars need people to turn them on and step on the gas. Guns need people to load them and pull their trigger. Guns and cars don't kill people, people kill people. If anybody does not believe that then my pencil misspells words, not me...
2007-03-21 17:25:02 · answer #9 · answered by Mr.L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. They are inanimate objects that are reliant on the laws of the universe to work. No firearm just goes off there MUST be an outside force.
2007-03-22 18:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋