America's safety and well being are being held hostage by "hobbyists" and "enthusiasts"

[Adrahil]

18. Apples and oranges.

Basically, you're saying anyone who owns an "assault gun" or a "hi-cap clip" as a hobbyist is an asshole, but only drunk drivers are assholes. The make your analogy equal, you'd need to call all drinkers assholes. After all, drinking alcohol isn;t necessary. We do it for pleasure, and most people (including myself) do so responsibly.

Another interesting statistic: in 2010, a survey showed than over 28 million people have admitted to drunk driving.

Anyway, I don't want to push this any further. But I do think there is some selective outrage happening here. Gun owners don't want all gun owners blamed, and drinkers don't want all drinkers blamed. More people drink than own guns, so one doesn;t get mentioned so much. People are willing to tolerate a lot of deaths so long as their ox doesn't get gored.

I'm probably more sensitive to this than most. I had two close family members killed by drunk driver, and no one I know (yet) has been killed with a gun.