Baths kill more Japanese then guns kill Americans

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126. Guns are only useful for murdering people?

didn't know that. Must be doing something wrong.

So as long as something is not designed to kill then the death toll is not important. It is not the absolute number of death but the instrument that is important?

If you had the power to change anything in America with the only condition being you had to save the most lives, do you think that guns would be in the top 10? Would you ignore all those other killers because killing is not "their intended purpose."?

My point is simple - societies commonly downplay serious threats to public safety while overreacting to less dangerous threats. The vast majority of Americans are perfectly safe from violence of any kind. Yet we fret about guns while giving car keys to our teenage kids - in my state car accidents and alcohol are the killers of young people.

In the case of guns, it is simple. The demographics of gun violence is well documented. We know who is most likely to be a killer and we know who is most likely to be killed. And we know where the most killings are likely to be. And funny enough it turns out that the killing is being done by criminals fighting the drug wars in poor urban areas. If you are not part of those demographics you have never been safer.

And finally, lets not forget that gun deaths are at a 50 year low - there has been a 50% decrease in murder and manslaughter since 1992. If all these guns are so dangerous, how is that possible? Shouldn't more guns and laxer gun laws lead to more deaths not fewer?