I think in most urban cores banning private cars is probably a good idea but the US can’t even do it in Manhattan where it makes an enormous amount of sense.
Once again, the conversation gets diverted by whataboutism. It's a deliberate tactic. Mass shootings have nothing to do with speed limits or congestion charges. It's not an honest argument, and he knows this, but the diversion is considered a win. Lower the speed limit to 25mph, no 1mph - it's all BS.
Who cares. It’s an internet message board. The point is to have fun discussions.
I suppose it's true that I rarely have the chance for a fun discussion about multiple mass murders. Obviously the answer is mandatory wheelbarrows with only one leg on the back so that people will always have to have both hands on the handles or they fall over, and legislate that everyone must have their wheelbarrows with them whenever they are out of their homes. That would cut down on fossil fuel use, and nightclubs would have far fewer people in them, what with everyone spending most of their lives in transit to and from work, schools and shops, giving shooters far less targets of people they irrationally hate in any given public place. The wheelbarrows would also give makeshift defensive positions in a crisis. Of course, if everyone was also forced to only marry blood relatives, the resultant increase in handicapped children would mean that more people would have to spend time looking after them which would also decrease the time they have for mass murdering.
It's completely valid if the reason for banning guns is saving lives. The entire point of this little diversion is that cars kill far more people than guns, yet no one wants to take any action. Being killed by a gun is a horrible tragedy, getting killed by a car is a cost of doing business.
When we saw children’s broken bodies in car wrecks we passed laws requiring better and better car seats, safer cars with latch attach points and cracked down on drunk driving.
We've taken action for decades on cars and continue to do so. Additional mandated safety features like automatic emergency braking are on their way. But even arguing that action hasn't been taking to make cars safer and reduce deaths is really just the most pathetic form of dishonesty. NO ONE as old as you are can be that ignorant. You've talked about retirement so I'm going to assume you are right around 65. The death rate per 100,000,000 miles driven in 1957 was 5.98, the same measurement in 2020 was 1.46. Motor vehicle deaths peaked in 1972.
The simple reality is a child is a hell of a lot safer in a classroom than in a car.When we saw children’s broken bodies in car wrecks we passed laws requiring better and better car seats, safer cars with latch attach points and cracked down on drunk driving.
When classrooms full of little kids get gunned down, we mute the sounds of their screams and courts block common sense gun laws.
Why? So at best grown men can feel like Ralphie dreaming of defending his family:
Nah us liberals rather kill fetuses
We spend money every year making cars safer you old bat.
Why do you say one is acceptable? Neither is acceptable. Do you have any clue how many man hours have been spent by engineers designing safer cars, car seats, and roads or lawyers and legislators on laws to reduce car crashes? By and large the effort is working:
