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Quote by: TRIGGER The odds of you being killed in a car accident is 1 chance in 247, the odds of being killed by a firearm is 1 chance in 5,808. you are 24 times more likely to be killed by a car than a gun.

And once again, that's because we operate automobiles, and are near to automobiles being operated, hundreds of thousands of times more often than we operate guns or are near guns being operated.

It's like saying that we're probably thousands upon thousands of times more likely to be killed in an automobile accident than to be mauled by a tiger.

Which is obviously true. However, if every adult American interacted closely with tigers 2 to 10 times a day, and were surrounded by thousands of other peoples tigers day in and day out, I suspect that figure would change significantly.

Wouldn't you?

I can sit on a nearby bluff overlooking a few miles of Interstate 805, and in probably just a few afternoon hours watch more cars drive by then the number of guns operated in the entire county over a entire week.

Quote by: TRIGGER LOL that registration, and qualification really makes a difference…LOL

And once again, given the number of automobiles being operated daily across America compared to the number guns being operated, and the yearly total of deaths from each... yeah, it apparently makes a difference.

Quote by: TRIGGER The individual right has already been decided. You do have a right to defend yourself, family and your rights though. You don’t have a right to a car do you?

Not according to the Constitution, TRIGGER. Do I have to spell it out again?

The Constitution says the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal lower Courts are the deciders what is and is not constitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court and the majority of lower Federal Courts have decided that you do NOT have an individual right to own firearms.

If you insist on thinking you have that right anyway, then I can certainly think I have a right to a car, but we both know that doesn't make it so. But you know all this, don't you, because we've been here before.

Quote by: TRIGGER They broke the law the moment they took those guns.

How about that. So apparently criminals aren't always criminals until easy access to firearms made it possible... and attractive.

And not just possible... we're talking about two pre-teen boys, maybe 100 lbs each soaking wet, who were able to kill and seriously injure 10 people from 200 ft away with just the pulls of their fingers. That's an absurd power to be handing out to whoever wants it.

Quote by: TRIGGER This case is isolated and cases like it are rare. It is just plain stupid to make laws based on rare occurrences.

No TRIGGER... if the U.S. experiences the most gun violence per capita than any of the worlds 37 wealthiest nations, the 8th most gun deaths per capita than all the worlds nations, and the 24th most murders per capita of all the worlds nations, then such incidents are entirely too common.

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