If guns were as regulated as cars

[Turbineguy]

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driver training requirement applies in Florida. But then again, auto insurance is 2.5 times higher.

I don't think that a true comparison between guns and cars can be made. Several problems exist. True gun fetishists don't give a shit about lives lost (as long as it does not happen to them). Market saturation is not a problem for gun manufacturers in the same way it is for car makers. Gun manufacturers are no where near that crossover point (dead people don't buy guns) where the number of deaths impact sales. People have limited space to park and store cars, whereas you can leave a gun laying around the house just about anywhere. Car makers are held to safety standards and indeed, people buy cars that are deemed to be safer than those that are not. On the other hand, guns that blow up in your face or shoot backwards might not sell too well either.

There are also statistical problems. Accidental auto deaths far outnumber accidental gun deaths. Please, please, please, don't compare the two for murder or suicide. BTW suicide by firearm is also non-violent (I never knew that) and of course, it's a choice made under the most rational of circumstances.

And speaking of rationality, remember guns are not dangerous, deaths related to firearms are mere coincidences. If you didn't get shot, you would have been struck by a meteor. It's God will. After all, he was democratically elected, not like that dictator in the White House.