NRA is too radical

[Crazed Rabbit]

* stares back *

'Gun ownership correlates with causing traffic accidents. People with guns cause far more traffic deaths than people without guns'.

Gah. I see that now - I was kind of in reflex mode and saw the multiple uses of the word cause.

The correlation I think is owing to a common character trait.

People with guns can afford to buy cars and don't live in a big city where car use is lower per capita?

Of course one can't ban either cars or guns. The former are needed because it is how people move around. The latter is needed because, well, because the NRA owns Washington, because a gun makes many men feel powerful and in control, and to erm...to defend against tyranny or something.

It is interesting, in terms of stereotypes about gun owners, to see how gun owners and police officers behave. To me, it seems that police officers more often think overmuch of their skill, having received brief official 'training', and induction into a culture that views them as having authority and power to have their way in all situations. Gun owners who aren't cops learn first of the danger guns pose and the respect they must give to firearms, and put their time and money towards training themselves. They generally have a better sense of what their skill really is.

CR

[Seamus Fermanagh]

While a nice graphic, the gun deaths by geographic area would be far more nuanced were it to go county/city by county in its coloration. They've done this with our voting results, surely they can do that with this topic as well.

I suspect we would find that gun ownership per 100k persons was highest in rural areas, but that the incidence of firearm deaths was far higher per 100k among citizens in urban areas.