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Originally Posted by Azure
And yet even with all those controls in place, roughly 15,000 people are killed each year in the US due to drinking and driving. According to Wikipedia, there were roughly 12,000 homicides with a gun in 2010.
You can add a bunch more deaths due to alcohol if you want to go down the health road.
I don't see anyone starting a thread talking about 'alcohol related deaths'...and yet according to the statistics, you are more likely to be killed by someone who has been drinking than you are to be killed by a 'gun.'
Of course, we all know banning alcohol isn't the solution, so we're stuck with the laws that we have now, and a strong focus on teaching kids to 'drink safely.' Hopefully.
Same thing can be said with guns. There are literally millions upon millions of gun owners in the US and Canada who are responsible about gun safety. Many of them have owned assault rifles for 'years.'
Just like there are millions of people who drink responsibly.
Which is exactly my point. There are a few people mucking all this up for those of us who are responsible.
And for the record, I agree for most of the measures President Obama proposed.
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You left out strict new drinking and driving laws were enacted 20 years ago and has cut drinking and driving deaths by 2/3rds