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If that started happening with regularity, and the vehicle lobby routinely blocked safety measures that could keep it from happening, I would absolutely blame them.

But for this analogy to work, cars would have to be significantly less useful than they are now, and it would have to be a special kind of car designed specifically to kill as many people as possible when plowed into a crowd.

 

That would get rid of smallpotatoes, too!

 

You'll have to pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands.

 

There are cars we don't allow on the road because they are overpowered for the average person. Wouldn't automatic weapons be a similar situation?

 

This is rich. A republican (former governor, current interim president) is whining in this story about state legislative cuts to Michigan State University. That's something his party has perfected nationwide in order to curb that damned libruhl academia.
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The incredibly stupid thing about the car analogy is that cars are heavily regulated, their use is heavily regulated, and as a result deaths have gone down considerably. It's literally the perfect example of what should happen with guns, and why it would work.

 

That is the case with automatic weapons.

 

My preference is to ban any magazine that holds more than 10 rounds ... and I'd really prefer it to be six rounds.

For rifles and for handguns, too. Guns are for defense, not for shooting dozens of people at once. Make it harder.

 

Exactly. License, registration, insurance, and reasonable limits on operation, with considerable punishments for violations. And deaths have gone down while usage has gone up! Amazing.

Thank God cars weren't around in the 1780s.

 

Could this not be extended to semi-automatic weapons? I honestly have no problem with people owing hunting rifles and even hand guns if they can demonstrate a need for them. However, I want them to be rigorously trained on the use and proper storage of these weapons. I don't think that is too much to ask.

 

The regulations (yearly registration renewal, state inspections, etc.) are a money grab and have little to do with carefully making sure people and their cars are "fit" to drive. If the insurance regulation was worth a shit, I would not need Uninsured Motorist insurance.

My 90-year-old father, three months removed from surgery to repair a broken hip and whose most recent accident was the result of nodding off at the wheel, can still drive anywhere he chooses. As long as he mails in a couple of checks a year.