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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.
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This is a defense? If you remove the people who accidentally died by gunfire, it looks better? 1/3 of gun deaths were homicides, what were the rest? Surely they must all be homicides because guns are only a problem when someone is purposely going to kill someone, and even then, they are the solution as well. 2/3 of people killed by guns were done so accidentally, but still must have been gangs or something right? Somehow?
Oh but car deaths! Those things that almost everyone has an uses for getting around? Those things that we come in contact with everyday that we license and test people to drive, that must be registered for the express purpose that we know who owns it if it's stolen or used in a crime? Those things that are a constant hazard, that we walk in front of, ride around, and are controlled by potentially unreliable light systems or faulty onboard computers? The fact that gun-related deaths are even close (let alone above) car deaths is completely ridiculous. Car deaths SHOULD be well above the gun death rate.