Odd that we can’t compare guns to cars, even when one is abused as a murder weapon.
A West Philadelphia woman has been formally charged with running over her boyfriend with a car, killing him….Police say Taylor and Jones were driving together in a 2002 Acura when they got into some kind of argument shortly before 2 a.m.
Taylor was driving. He stopped the car in the 2400 block of Morris Street, got out and began walking away.
That’s when police say Jones told them she then slid over into the driver’s seat, put the car in gear and struck him.
That last bit really makes it sad. Unless I’m missing something, it sounds like a heated argument happened between a man and a woman, and the man did the correct thing, which was to distance himself from the situation to let things cool down.
Too bad she ran him down with the car.
But we can’t compare “Car Death” with “Gun Death” because guns are different.
Guns are different because they are different!
h/t Barron and Bubblehead Les
Guns are different.
She wouldn’t have been able to drive herself home in the murder weapon had she used a gun.
Sorry.
Couldn’t resist.
It’s kinda funny you bring this up. As I recently pointed out to everyone’s favorite Brady/Joyce/Media Matters shill, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows the “weapons” used in murders/homicides, and while their statistics show that not quite 9,000 of almost 13,000 homicides are committed with firearms, there is no “motor vehicle” category, even though “vehicular homicide” and/or “vehicular manslaughter” are crimes pretty much across the US.
If you’re like me, and only attribute “accidents” to honest-to-goodness non-foreseeable mechanical failures (extremely rare), then the vast majority of traffic fatalities – as well as the control-fanatics’ “gun deaths” – are human-caused, either through bad judgment or negligence. What’s this mean? Let’s check the math:
Nearly 13,000 homicides per year, not quite 9,000 with firearms, we’ll err on the high side and call that 70% firearms-related.
Add in 19,000 largely preventable traffic fatalities, and it’s now 9,000 out of 32,000, or about 30% (again rounding up). Hell, I’d be willing to grant them a few thousand as “accidents.”
If you ask me, that pretty much blows the “majority-of-homicides-are-committed-with-firearms” meme out of the water.
That’s why it needs to be off the table.
#1. They’re Wrong, and #2. They do not want cars treated in any way similar to guns because Anti-Freedom activists OWN and USE Cars!