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32310 people died in car accidents last year. Is now the time to ban the automobile?

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Originally posted by dryhump
32310 people died in car accidents last year. Is now the time to ban the automobile?
how many of them were 5 year old kids?

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Originally posted by dryhump
32310 people died in car accidents last year. Is now the time to ban the automobile?
Cars have very useful purpose in society. Guns don't.

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Originally posted by dryhump
32310 people died in car accidents last year. Is now the time to ban the automobile?
Automobiles weren't designed to kill people.

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Originally posted by rwingett
Automobiles weren't designed to kill people.
Yeah, that too.

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Originally posted by rwingett
Automobiles weren't designed to kill people.
Sometimes killing people is deemed necessary.As well as other dangerous critters.

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Originally posted by normbenign
Sometimes killing people is deemed necessary.As well as other dangerous critters.
not 5 year old kids

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Originally posted by moon1969
Cars have very useful purpose in society. Guns don't.
Guns have an extremely useful purpose in society. One of their uses is to prevent the atrocity that occurred today.

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Yes.

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Originally posted by sasquatch672
Guns have an extremely useful purpose in society. One of their uses is to prevent the atrocity that occurred today.
And I guess they did.

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Originally posted by rwingett
Automobiles weren't designed to kill people.
They're pretty efficient at it, nevertheless.

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Originally posted by my2sons
how many of them were 5 year old kids?
I don't have those numbers in front of me. I would guess a lot more kids are killed by cars than by guns.

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