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Why can the federal government force national recalls on all products - except GUNS?
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 62237818" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>Oh, you must have missed the part where it said "probably" and where it was the author's opinion based on cherry picked data trends.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Wow, jumping the gun (pun intended) on posting things before researching them, eh?</p><p> </p><p>If you look at the overall stats, less than a third of the gun deaths are homicides.</p><p> </p><p>Even the heavily-left skewing stats from the Brady center report it at barely over a third:</p><p>57% are suicides</p><p>37% homicide</p><p>6% are accidents</p><p> </p><p>People like yourself keep referring to the intent as if that has some impact or lessen the blow of the end result.</p><p> </p><p>If cars kill more people than guns, the fact that guns are designed for killing and cars are designed for driving doesn't make one bit of difference.</p><p> </p><p>In fact, the fact that cars are more likely to kill by accident, that makes them more unstable and unpredictable than guns. If over half of the gun deaths are suicides, those are people who want to take their own life and mean no harm to anyone else (low danger risk to the general public). </p><p> </p><p>...and if I'm not mistaken, I've heard many folks on the left say that the right to suicide is a human right and if a person really wants to die, it'd be unethical to force them to keep living. (not sure if you were one of them or not). and to those folks I say, be consistent. If your view is that someone having the right to put themselves out of their own pain is ethical and moral, don't switch sides and claim that suicide is bad in efforts to boost the numbers for your side of the gun-control argument.</p><p> </p><p>...and when looking at suicide statistics, it's plain to see that they'll just find another way when a gun isn't available (intentional self poisoning/overdose seems to be a popular one).</p><p> </p><p>As I mentioned in another thread, when I hear the argument that uses the logic of looking at "what the object is designed for", rather than looking at the statistics, using that logic, one could say that leaving your 2 year old unattended with a boxing glove is a bigger danger than leaving them unattended with a swimming pool...because as we know, boxing gloves are designed for hitting people in the face and swimming pools are designed for summer fun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 62237818, member: 123415"] Oh, you must have missed the part where it said "probably" and where it was the author's opinion based on cherry picked data trends. Wow, jumping the gun (pun intended) on posting things before researching them, eh? If you look at the overall stats, less than a third of the gun deaths are homicides. Even the heavily-left skewing stats from the Brady center report it at barely over a third: 57% are suicides 37% homicide 6% are accidents People like yourself keep referring to the intent as if that has some impact or lessen the blow of the end result. If cars kill more people than guns, the fact that guns are designed for killing and cars are designed for driving doesn't make one bit of difference. In fact, the fact that cars are more likely to kill by accident, that makes them more unstable and unpredictable than guns. If over half of the gun deaths are suicides, those are people who want to take their own life and mean no harm to anyone else (low danger risk to the general public). ...and if I'm not mistaken, I've heard many folks on the left say that the right to suicide is a human right and if a person really wants to die, it'd be unethical to force them to keep living. (not sure if you were one of them or not). and to those folks I say, be consistent. If your view is that someone having the right to put themselves out of their own pain is ethical and moral, don't switch sides and claim that suicide is bad in efforts to boost the numbers for your side of the gun-control argument. ...and when looking at suicide statistics, it's plain to see that they'll just find another way when a gun isn't available (intentional self poisoning/overdose seems to be a popular one). As I mentioned in another thread, when I hear the argument that uses the logic of looking at "what the object is designed for", rather than looking at the statistics, using that logic, one could say that leaving your 2 year old unattended with a boxing glove is a bigger danger than leaving them unattended with a swimming pool...because as we know, boxing gloves are designed for hitting people in the face and swimming pools are designed for summer fun. [/QUOTE]
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