NRA is too radical

[Tuuvi]

* stares back *

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


This is true. People with guns cause more traffic accidents than people without. Whether this is owing to, or the result of, gun ownership is another manner - this causation is not established by mere correlation. Nor is it implied in the two statments above.

The correlation I think is owing to a common character trait. People who enjoy guns have a more agressive personality and are more willing to put the lives of others at risk. These arer also the people who tend to create most traffic accidents, at least most deadly accidents. Hence why gun owners create much more traffic accidents than people without guns.


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.

What makes you think people who like guns are more aggressive and more willing to put the lives of others at risk? I don't think this is true for most gun owners. When my grandpa taught me how to shoot, the first thing he told me was "the gun is always loaded". He would have been really angry with me and wouldn't have let me shoot if I wasn't careful with the gun. Anyone I've ever gone shooting with was just as conscious of safety. I enjoy shooting, but whenever I'm holding a gun around other people I feel a little nervous because of the potential to cause serious harm to another person.