Gun enthusiasts and the rush to buy guns after a mass shooting: Please don't shift the blame.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

107. Figured you'd go there. You're still wrong.

In theory, both bicycles and guns have been the primary tool resulting in a person's death. The thing about bikes though, is that it is extremely, extremely, extremely freakishly rare that someone will actually die because of a bike. I did a Google search, and I found one example in New York of a woman going into a coma after being hit by a bike. Not sure if she died. There was also an incident in Canada where someone died after being hit by a bike. And that's all I could find in terms of those bike-induced deaths. All other deaths I found pertaining to bicycle riders were as a result of bikers being hit by cars.

Guns, on the other hand, kill people all the time.

I haven't come across a single instance of a bike being used as a weapon. Maybe you can direct me to any such incident, but for the life of me I can't find anything.

On the other hand, guns are used as weapons all the time.

Do you know why?

Because that's what they're designed to do.

They're not toys. They're weapons.

The problem with a lot of gun enthusiasts is that they've forgotten that fact, and think guns are cool to collect and that they can buy them just because they want them, not because they need them.