raydawg wrote on 10/02/16 at 07:43:15:Like booze.
It kills way more folks, drinking and driving, not even close.
We should have a breath checker/analyzer at every place of business that serves booze and allows people to drive away, etc.
We should welcome sobriety check points, and not scream its a threat to our constitutional rights, etc....
And of course, cigarettes, tobacco, first and secondhand smoke, and chew, spit.
I have made this argument before. I have posted statistics.
Heart disease outweighs firearm related deaths (homicide and suicide).
Why not push for salads and less greasy cheeseburgers, if the true intention was saving lives.
About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that's 1 in every 4 deaths. ...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. More than half of the deaths due to heart disease in 2009 were in men.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=heart+disease+fatalities+in+the+usAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens); 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000); 21,175 suicides; 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined ...
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=firearm+fatalities+in+the+usCigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year. Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following: More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke) 278,544 deaths annually among men (including deaths from secondhand smoke)Aug 18, 2015
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tobacco+fatalities+in+the+usNearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States. In 2014, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=alcohol+fatalities+in+the+usImagine a fictitious scenario where you could only save 1% of any category. If you truly cared about saving the most lives you could, you would address heart disease, then tobacco, before firearms came up. (I'm actually shocked firearm suicides are that high. I haven't looked up that stat recently.)
--Steve