One Person Dies Every 15 Seconds. (car crash, vehicle, 2010, motorcycle)
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We already knew that and makes our claim "firearms are safer" hold up. Don't BS us antis, we know the truth. A vehicle is the most common killer in the world today! Never-ever forget that!
Again, with 43,000 automobile deaths each year (half related to Alcohol) but 190 million registered drivers, and 200+ million registered cars (and so many cars filled with more than one person), the number of deaths vs the driving population is in the tiniest fraction of one percent. In fact less than .0001% of peopel in cars annually. Each one a real person and a sad story, to be sure, but seriously, it's really REALLY easy to be in the 99.999% that aren't dyining each year.
It's too bad that these scare tactics are used to enact draconian, lowest common denominator laws that punish people with skill (and yes, unlike, say smoking or alcohol use, you can get MORE skilled and have LESS risk with practice and doing it more often. So using death statistics from driving and comparing it with substance abuse like smoking or drinking or drug use is a bit misleading) by forcing everyone to be at that lowest common denominator level.
IMO the 3/4 drivers dead are males is a bit misleading. I am thinking that percentage would match up pretty well with how many actual males are on the road at any point in time compared to how many females there are. For instance just think about commercial drivers, emergency vehicle drivers as well as drivers for contractors, transportation companies, etc.... all mostly male. There are also far more stay at home females than there are males. That means whoever has a job is on the road at least twice a day or possibly 4 times if they go out for lunch.
Wait until the aging population ages even more! And if you feared encountering a drunk driver on the roads!
These senior-related accidents never go unnoticed in the newspaper here.
At least every two weeks, there's a dilly of an accident reported.
Most recently, an 82YO driver got confused, went down the wrong freeway ramp, colliding with two motorcyclists head on. She died, along with one motorcylist, and the other left in critical condition.
And will you be able to stop these people, after they've had their licenses yanked from them? No, as long as good public transportation doesn't serve them, they'll keep on driving!
We already knew that and makes our claim "firearms are safer" hold up. Don't BS us antis, we know the truth. A vehicle is the most common killer in the world today! Never-ever forget that!
How can an inaminate object kill someone *facepalm* Deer are actually the most common killers. (Damn deer.)
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