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Quote by: Winter wind  Eating bad food is your own fault and effects no one else (i argue against smoking, but thats for later).
Plus your stat is misleading as everybody has heart problems when they get old enough. Your body deteriorates as it gets older, and I'm not aiming to cure old age today. its a natural course of action that can be stopped with proper eating. Something the government shouldn't enforce on the people for gene pool reasons. (my bad sense of humor) |
Somewhat fair enough response; however...
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But a better response is because I'm in the group of people where the second leading cause of death is guns. The age group under 19 before they can develop heart problems, is being eaten alive by guns and drunk driving.
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Best I've been able to find, there are approximately 30,000,000 teenagers in the US; likely the strictly accurate number is higher. Using your CDC stats link, there are 10,757 deaths by motor vehicle, and 4,127 deaths by gun homicide. Saying teenagers are being "eaten alive" is rather hyperbolic. Not that I mean to minimize the tragedy inherent in the numbers, but rather to give some perspective.
GUNS=death
CARS=more death
You advocate banning guns. Why do you not advocate a ban on cars? They both have the potential: to be used in a healthy manner; to be misused with harmful effect; to harm others.
The argument of "guns were designed to kill people - cars weren't" is entirely irrelevant. Or is it? Cars weren't designed to kill people - yet kill more people than the item designed to kill people. Interesting irony, that?
And really, it's not the item itself that does the killing - it's the person's [mis]use of that item. The [mis]use is the problem that needs to be addressed.