Kurt Vonnegut said, "when only the police own guns, that's called a police state" (or something like that)
The amount of traffic fatalities in the US each year make gun deaths look insignificant. I suppose we could ban those as well.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:14,
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Do you actually have the reference to that?
Googling for it returns nothing, and his quote I did find "That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats [Waller] or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that, to quote the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, "being alive is a crock of shit." hardly makes him sound pro-gun (different issue to whether he thinks some people should be allowed them and not others, though).
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:24,
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this is a point I've made before,
in the UK there are about 3500 deaths on the road each year and nobody wants to ban driving. According to the book "Freakonomics" there are more accidental deaths from swimming pools than from firearms.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:29,
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no-one wants to ban driving but there are plenty of campaigners for lower speed limits, lower drink-driving limits etc
Gun control isnt about 'banning' guns. It's about making gun ownership safer.
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