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Originally Posted by edge
For that matter, we can look for inspiration at our own history on auto safety. As with guns, some auto deaths are caused by people who break laws or behave irresponsibly. But we don’t shrug and say, “Cars don’t kill people, drunks do.”
Instead, we have required seat belts, air bags, child seats and crash safety standards. We have introduced limited licenses for young drivers and tried to curb the use of mobile phones while driving. All this has reduced America’s traffic fatality rate per mile driven by nearly 90 percent since the 1950s.
Some of you are alive today because of those auto safety regulations. And if we don’t treat guns in the same serious way, some of you and some of your children will die because of our failure.
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Horsecrap.
I guess MADD was just spinning it's wheels, trying to get existing DUI/DWI laws enforced, much less advocating tougher punishments? Not to mention the lack of enforcement of the plethora of other traffic laws?
We've discussed DB drivers on this forum ad nauseaum. For all the safety features and improvements and regulations, we still have accidents and people still get killed, because we still refuse to acknowledge and address the real problem -
MAKING SURE THAT THE DB HOLDING THE STEERING WHEEL ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO ****ING DRIVE A CAR BEFORE WE HAND THEM A LICENSE.
SOME auto deaths are caused by people who break laws or act irresponsibly? How about DAMN NEAR ALL OF THEM, genius. Cars don't drive themselves.
To paraphrase BC, another GD hypocrite (the author of the article, not the poster), turning the subject of auto safety and fatalities on it's head, in an attempt to justify a simplistic feel-good "solution" to this tragedy - which still does nothing to address the root causes behind it or prevent it's reoccurrence - because it's always much easier to deal with inanimate objects than people.