11 dead from 2 wrecks over the weekend

[Texashiker]

If these 11 people had died from gun violence president obama would be on national TV talking about how we need to pass gun safety laws.

So where is the outrage from so many people drying in car wrecks?

The thing both wrecks have in common, a driver was speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road.

http://news.yahoo.com/11-dead-wrong-way-car-crashes-florida-california-002328490--finance.html

This is what I purpose:

Background checks for everyone who buys a vehicle.

Background checks for everyone who wants to buy gasoline.

Vehicles can only hold 5 people.

Only police need a vehicle that can go over 75 mph.

Strengthen laws on driving on the wrong side of the road.

Something has to be done about this senseless slaughter. If new laws can save one life, then it is worth it.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Slow day on FoxNews?? Nothing was on that channel that could get you outraged, so you decided to get pissed off at something else,... for the purpose of making a fuss over another issue.

Great way of respecting the dead. Take their tragedy and tie it back to your bitching and moaning.

 

[brycejones]

Thank goodness the OP posted about this.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Ban cars!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I'd be all for making driver tests harder to pass, as well as periodic retesting requirements.

 

[brandonb]

OP has a point.

 

[Texashiker]

Slow day on FoxNews?? Nothing was on that channel that could get you outraged, so you decided to get pissed off at something else,... for the purpose of making a fuss over another issue.

Rather than debate the message you attack the messenger.

Typical liberal response.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Exactly. Both kill about the same number each year but you don't see cars needing to be registered, insured, testing to be able to drive or any of the number of regulations guns have...

 

[thraashman]

We require a legal driver to obtain a license.
We require a test to be granted a driver's license.
We require a car to be registered and that registration to be updated yearly.
Cars require license plates which allow the owner to be easily identified.
Many states require drivers to obtain insurance.
The amount of government required safety features has increased regularly with time for new vehicles.

Cars kill a person when used incorrectly or irresponsibly. Guns kill a person when used as intended. In addition the number of people who operate vehicles and the overall time per year in which a person is using a vehicle is higher than that of people who use firearms.

 

[Engineer]

Most likely, DUI in both cases. Either ban alcohol or simply execute anyone drinking and driving (sarcastic on both but something needs to be done to stop this shit).

My brother died 11 years ago today because he decided to drink, drive and enter the highway on an off ramp. He collided head on with a semi and died one month later from his injuries. Fortunately, he was the only one who died and nobody who was innocently minding their own business.

Fix DUI (and other forms of distracted driving like texting and driving) and you'll end so much of what is reported in the OP.

As for the OP, great way to throw out a lot of bullshit trying to make a bullshit point. OP FAIL.

 

[TheSiege]

When I read the second report I thought that I had misread the first. I was surprised that two separate incidents ended the same way. But just for fun here is something interesting when it comes to auto accidents and gun deaths

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/gun-deaths-exceed-motor-v_b_1536793.html

 

[BUnit1701]

...
Cars kill a person when used incorrectly or irresponsibly. Guns kill a person when used as intended. ...

Intent is not something inherent to an object, but rather to the person using that object. Society as a whole has agreed that killing other people is not allowed, the tool used is irrelevant to the violation of the societal contract.

 

[theeedude]

If these 11 people had died from gun violence president obama would be on national TV talking about how we need to pass gun safety laws.

So where is the outrage from so many people drying in car wrecks?

The thing both wrecks have in common, a driver was speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road.

http://news.yahoo.com/11-dead-wrong-way-car-crashes-florida-california-002328490--finance.html

This is what I purpose:

Background checks for everyone who buys a vehicle.

Background checks for everyone who wants to buy gasoline.

Vehicles can only hold 5 people.

Only police need a vehicle that can go over 75 mph.

Strengthen laws on driving on the wrong side of the road.

Something has to be done about this senseless slaughter. If new laws can save one life, then it is worth it.

Should we eliminate DUI laws too, since they didn't stop this from happening?

 

[Texashiker]

But just for fun here is something interesting when it comes to auto accidents and gun deaths

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/gun-deaths-exceed-motor-v_b_1536793.html

Subtract suicides and that gun death number goes way down.

The title of the article is misleading,

Gun Deaths Exceed Motor Vehicle Deaths in 10 States

That means in 40 state car deaths outpace gun deaths.

 

[DominionSeraph]

We require a legal driver to obtain a license.
We require a test to be granted a driver's license.
We require a car to be registered and that registration to be updated yearly.
Cars require license plates which allow the owner to be easily identified.
Many states require drivers to obtain insurance.
The amount of government required safety features has increased regularly with time for new vehicles.

Yup, I'm up with this OP. Guns should be registered, the operators licensed, and they should illegal to operate in public outside of designated pathways. Also, to increase the likelihood of care being taken in use, it should be mandated that guns be manufactured to kill the operator more often than anyone else, while being held to overall standards for minimal lethality.

 

[Texashiker]

Yup, I'm up with this OP. Guns should be registered, the operators licensed, and they should illegal to operate in public outside of designated pathways.

Driving a vehicle is not a right.

 

[Vic]

Holy troll, batman!

 

[TheSiege]

Driving a vehicle is not a right.

Buying a gun isn't a right either. And all rights have limitations.

 

[DrPizza]

Buying a gun isn't a right either. And all rights have limitations.

Something something something 2nd amendment.

 

[Orignal Earl]

What a fucked up world you live in
Car crashes..people died...make a gun thread

 

[Strk]

Isn't it easier to get a gun legally in some states than a car?

 

[TheSiege]

Something something something 2nd amendment.

You have to right to bear arms, not purchase them.

 

[Fenixgoon]

You have to right to bear arms, not purchase them.

and if one cannot acquire arms, then one essentially has had that right stripped.

 

[TheSiege]

and if one cannot acquire arms, then one essentially has had that right stripped.

The government can always issue them out

 

[Texashiker]

You have to right to bear arms, not purchase them.

Do you live under a rock or something?

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/24383892/judge-rules-chicago-gun-ban-is-unconstitutional

A federal judge ruled Monday that Chicago's ban on virtually all sales and transfers of firearms is unconstitutional.