> Your car is going to cause a mass extinction. My gun is going to sit in my closet. Critical thinking is, as they say, critical.

Not so fast. Your gun (and its variants) are designed to cause extinction. Cars aren't.

And listen up son. If you cannot distinguish between the primary use of things at a given time, you have big problems in life. I would recommend going back to high school to learn what "Critical thinking is, as they say, critical" means.