The is charged with enforcing our nation’s limited gun laws, yet it has none of the health and safety regulatory powers afforded other federal agencies such as NHTSA (or the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency). If you wait long enough, they always reveal their true agenda:Īnd while the health and safety regulation of motor vehicles stands as a public health success story, firearms remain literally the last consumer product manufactured in the United States not subject to federal health and safety regulation. Josh seems to have difficulty with words and numbers, so let’s draw it out with pretty pictures and colors, shall we? From, here’s what right-to-carry looked like in 1990 (right up there at the third highest peak above):Īnd here is what it looked like in 2010 (at the very tail end of the graph, one of the lowest points): from 1960 to 2010 and extracted the Murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate to make this graph (free graphing available here). According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, you are a big fat liar! You can easily go here and do your own table I used violent crime rates for the entire U.S. Wow, gun deaths continue unabated, eh Josh? Not so much. While motor vehicle-related deaths are on a steady decline as the result of a successful decades-long public health-based injury prevention strategy, gun deaths continue unabated. Now, I know that there are some out there who would argue that I should remove homicides from the total, but as you can see, just pulling the suicides completely debunks Josh’s numbers. The data seem kind of sparse what were the causes of death? Were they suicides, homicides, accidents? We know that suicide rates are independent of method (that is, restricting access to firearms may reduce the suicide rate with firearms, but it does not affect the overall suicide rate) so let’s and remove suicides from the totals. Sugarmann then provides the list, breaking it down by gun deaths and car deaths (note: no cars or guns were killed in the performance of this study). If any at all.Īnd yet, in 10 states gun deaths actually outpace motor vehicle deaths. How many do you see or actually use during the same period?įor most people, not that many. Each day, how many motor vehicles do you see or actually use?

Drunk drivers killed more than guns