Why Not Car Control?

[mzmadmike]

Cars are involved in 50% more deaths than guns. About 1/3 of car fatalities involve a driver under age 21. Most lethal car accidents involve multiple casualties. If it's unreasonable to allow someone under 21 to handle a handgun, it is positively insane to allow them behind the wheel of a car, with 6 million times the potential energy, where a

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[septithol]

The fallacious response to this is to argue that "cars aren't meant to kill." But, if they are not meant to, but are 50% more lethal than handguns, no reasonable person can argue against tighter restrictions.
The problem with this sort of statement is that you are anthropomorphizing and giving human emotions and intentions to inanimate objects. Rather than say 'a car isn't meant to kill', it would be more accurate to say that most people do not get behind the wheel of a car with the intention of using it to kill someone else

[maineshark]

Yeah, I just did the math, and even one of those tiny "Smart Car" things, traveling at a mere 40mph, has the same energy as 67 rounds of M855 (at NATO standard test conditions with a 20" barrel). All in one "burst" if you want to think of it that way.

Not to mention that it also has gasoline on board, so it's really an incindiary device, as well.

Now imagine a non-micro car...

If rifles are dangerous, then I don't know if there are words strong enough to describe cars...