What is your opinion
Which one is more deadly a car or a gun?
Best gets 10 points
2007-10-09 14:17:04 · 25 answers · asked by Nate 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
In 2006, there were 14,990 homicides in the USA, 10,117 were committed by fire arms. (check the FBI UCR stats for non-believers)
In 2005, the last year I can find reliable stats for Autos:
Car Crash Stats: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.
So, in reading all of this... I guess you know which I feel as being more dangerous. And for all of you gun control nuts, stats like this do not lie. And look at the cities with the tightest gun control laws... Highest gun crimes. The states and towns with little to no gun control? Little to no crime.
I have seen many more fatal crashes than homicides in my many years on the street. And I have worked in the slums and was a homicide detective to boot.
Its about education and moral values... Not Gun Control!
2007-10-09 14:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Considering that I encounter cars more often than I do guns, I would say cars (more opportunities to get killed).
And now that I think about it, what do you consider "more deadly"? I mean there's death and then there's DEATH - that is, "slowly" (relative) bleed out through a gunshot wound to the chest, or having your entire body crushed within a single moment by a car. In that case, my answer would definitely be the same - a car.
But if you're talking about "more deadly" meaning probability, then my answer is still the same - a car.
Of course, that's assuming I'm not in a drive by shooting. In that case, my answer would be the gun, but the car would definitely be a contributing factor.
2007-10-09 14:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by TrippingJudy 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As I said earlier, Car and gun both are equally deadly/safe. What matters the most is who is driving/firing.
For instance, if President Bush was to drive, he would be a problem for innocent civilians, right?
ON THE OTHER HAND
If Sir Usama Bin Laden was to user AK-47, he would sound deadly.
2007-10-09 15:36:56 · answer #3 · answered by Flying Soldier 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A car. There are more cars out on the streets than guns by far. Not everyone knows how to drive.
2007-10-09 14:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by Steven C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really isn't the object itself that is deadly but the person who uses it and frankly I think the gun is as deadly as the car under a reckless person's control.
2007-10-09 14:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by sakura7blossoms 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know seven people who have been hit by cars, four of whom were killed. I only know two people who have been shot, one in the knee by a friend with a BB gun, and one in the throat in a similar situation. Both survived. Kids playing with guns... stupid! Either way, statistically, cars are more deadly. Car accidents and hit-and-runs happen on a daily basis. Shootings, although they may occur often, are not always fatal. Car-related accidents are fatal more often than gunshot wounds.
2007-10-09 14:22:10 · answer #6 · answered by leigh 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Depends on who is behind the wheel or behind the trigger.
A drunk teenager behind the wheel of a 2500+ pound vehicle speeding along at 100+mph on a rain-soaked street is probably just a wee-bit more dangerous than a trained police officer aiming point-blank at a bank robber on a clear, windless day in the middle of a crowded street.
On the other hand, getting hit by said speeding car could result in nothing more than the victim flying a few hundred feet into the air and suffering no more than a handful of broken bones and a sub-dermal hemotoma.
While just one stray bullet can bounce around the inside of an unintended bystander, piercing several vital organs, causing bowels to leak toxic fluids into the bloodstream...and to say nothing of the caustic effects of what the shock waves of a single bullet can do to the inside of a body.
I suppose its is all random chance on which is more deadly.
If I had a choice, I'd take my chance with the car...odds favor my survivability.
2007-10-09 14:31:55 · answer #7 · answered by docscholl 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
well, cars kill far more people than guns do every year so I would have to say the car is more deadly. And that is not even taking into consideration the pollution which can kill people too.
2007-10-09 14:21:24 · answer #8 · answered by brian777999 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, you aren't going to find any stories of someone accidentally shooting into a farmers market and killing 5+ people and getting away with it, while that happened twice in the last year with cars driving into farmer's markets and killing people, and the driver didn't go to jail. Plus, we'll put a driver's license into anyone's hands, teenagers get cars for their birthdays. So, I would say not only do cars out number guns and are easier to get, they kill more people.
2007-10-09 14:32:18 · answer #9 · answered by smartsassysabrina 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It depends on your perspective. People killed by drunk drivers in the USA over the last 4 years: 60,000+. US Service Personnel killed in Iraq over four years: Under 4000.
Check the numbers at the NTSB website and see for yourself, then you tell me.
By the way, in the same amount of time over 200,000 Americans have died from cigarettes.
Funny- so many thumbs down. I never promised to give the most popular answer- just the best one I can give. Danger is danger and if we're concerned about *perceived* danger VS real danger that results in the actual loss of life the numbers are very lopsided.
Dog Lover has got the statistics on the money.
2007-10-09 14:24:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋