Recap of a post in GD

[krispos42]

16. I don't exempt guns from the second point

But car-related deaths and pool-related deaths are almost always unintentional, that is, accidents or negligence. Yeah, we put people in prison for vehicular homicide, and of course a few people are murdered by drowning in a given year. But by and large it's a deaths-per-unit measure feature.

The average person drive 15,000 miles per year and there are... 200? million cars driven on the road.

So in the 3,000,000,000,000 car-miles driven per year, we know that 30,000 people will die, so that's one person per 100,000,000 car-miles.

We also know that vehicular traffic density has something to do with it, but so does vehicular safety features. Density makes the rate go up, safety features (airbags, crumple zones, lane-keeping, etc) makes them go down. The number of people killed per year on the highways has been relatvely steady for decades, despite increases in population and traffic density and distractions, so the rate has been dimishing steadily.

Gun owners can own a quite a few guns, but can only really use one at a time. So individuals owning more guns doesn't really increase the risk dying from guns. If I'm going to commit suicide or kill my cheating spouse, a dozen handguns and two dozen AR-15s doesn't make my suicide or homicide more likely than if I have one handgun.