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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll

A firearm is a tool as well and just like all tools, a subset of the population will misuse that tool. If you look at the 2013 numbers, vehicle fatalities were 10.345/100,000; firearm fatalities were 10.64/100,000. Almost identical. It goes down even further to 3.55/100,000 if you only count homicide.

Firearms have plenty of legal, recognized purposes. Hunting, target shooting, competition, self defense (yes, even in Canada) and collecting. All legal and all uses that occur more frequently than misuse.

Did you just argue that in a feasible contrast, guns are used to shoot human beings with the same proportional frequency that knives are used to stab them?