Cars and Guns
18th December 2015
I’m sure you’ve seen the breathless headlines “Guns Now Killing as Many People as Cars!!!!!!” in the Drive-By Media. (Of course, actual humans had no role in these killings, except as victims. I suppose Society’s To Blame.)
Reason magazine actually gives us some context:
They also note:
Two out of every three gun death is actually a suicide. So actually, if that “gun violence” line only counted violence against others, it would plunge down as well. And then the two lines wouldn’t even be converging. So the whole chart itself is a bit questionable.
But despite what the numbers actually mean, the gun control obsession is whatever Democrats decide this time counts as an “assault weapon.”