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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by agarden on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @10:09AM (#11289700)
Guns are regulated. You must be at least eighteen in most states in order to buy a gun. In many places (most?), there is a waiting period. You pay one day, you come back another to pick it up. Concealed carry is either illegal or requires taking a class, registering, and getting a permit. Open carry is legal in some places, illegal in others.

It is harder to get a concealed carry permit than a driver's license, at least past the age of 21.

I'm not saying that there aren't more regulations that could be passed that would make gun ownership safer. I think there probably are. But to hold that car ownership is more regulated than gun ownership is not a tenable position.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by thinkcontext on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:14AM (#11290224)
Cars require registration, insurance, and inspection. The government has spent considerable resources researching causes of injury/death and pushed over decades ever stricter safety standards and new technologies. This is a considerable amount of regulation that guns do not have and would probably make a big difference.
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