" Okay, dude. You asked for it. No, a car wreck isn't as newsworthy as a shooting spree on a college campus that claims several lives. Car wrecks happen every day. Shooting sprees do not.

And, yes, the car wreck was a lesser tragedy. That's undeniable.

As for your irrational work matching up car wrecks with shooting deaths, it's difficult to respond to such an irrational assertion. It's like trying to explain why fish don't make good coffee tables. Where does one begin?

But, if you insist...

There are hundreds of laws dictating what can and can't be done with a car. You can't speed. You have to use a turn signal. You have to get a license. Literally hundreds of rules designed to improve safety. Sometimes, though, there are accidents. These are things that happened that weren't intended.

There are almost no rules for gun owners.Sometimes, people are killed by guns. In many cases, these are intentional acts rather than accidents.

As for what kills people, strokes rank pretty high. Perhaps we should outlaw brains so that none could be cut off from blood flow. Oh, wait. I see that you've already volunteered for that one.
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" In that case, maybe you should carry a concealed car around. We'd all be safer. "

" Almost no rules for gun owners? What state do you live in? Do you have to have a background check to buy a car? Are you required by law to keep your car locked up if you have children? Are the ISP illegally keeping records on your vehicle purchases?

I guess those 20,000 state, local, and federal laws = "almost no rules" to you. "

" John....you need to stay home under the covers where it's safe and warm.

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" Thanks for your letter Mr. Douglas.
Now be prepared for all the braying from the Jackass party and those like minded liberals,that dominate the blog. Who would give up all your rights to make them FEEL safer!
Yes we hear daily of all the big bad cars, that make those little one more vulnerable. Then you have those very mean assault SUV's that deliberately attack,with fully automatic 4W drive, the smaller cars.
We have tried to outlaw those gas guzzling monsters. We will continue until we prevail to outlaw them. No sane person needs a SUV. Our new energy bill,will make the miles per gallon high enough they can't be made! "

" This is probably a stretch, but more people are dying at WAR in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but I don't hear any of the right wingers wanting to stop that or put regulations on when we do. "

" 1 cav wrote on Mar 13, 2008 1:10 PM:
" Thanks for your letter Mr. Douglas.
Now be prepared for all the braying from the Jackass party and those like minded liberals,that dominate the blog. Who would give up all your rights to make them FEEL safer!

excuse me 1Cadaver....the bush administration has stripped the american public of more constitutional and civil rights than any one single administration in our history. they have condoned torture and eavesdropping all acceptable by the neocon chistian coalition and GOP....now tell me again who gives up what, willingly... "

" So supporting the the right to own a firearm makes one a "rightwinger"? "

" So what you're saying FB is that you want to give Bush et al MORE power? Shall I point you to the recent Lautenburg-King bill that bypasses the 5th Amendment? The bill supported by the IACP. "

" For every would-be criminal stopped by a gun-wielding honest citizen, how many of those same honest citizens also use their guns to assault and kill their spouses in a heated argument or to shoot a stranger when they snap for a moment in a fit of road rage, or who have their curious kids stumble onto their guns that they forgot -- just this once -- to lock up and then the kids accidentally shoot themselves or their friends, or how many have their legally-obtained weapon either stolen from them when they're not home or used against them by a criminal who overpowers them if they (as many law-abiding people would do) hesitate a moment to shoot another person? And that doesn't even count all these school shootings, many of whom used legally-obtained weapons or who had access to a family member's legally obtained weapon. Tell me again why more guns in the hands of more people should make me feel safer? "

" Alright, don't get me wrong on this one. My heart and thoughts go out to anyone who has suffered a death of a family member, a loved one, or a friend. Death is death and it all hurts, no matter how it happens. It's the shock of it that institutes and warrants all of the drama and attention. First page, second page, third page, car accidents, guns, murders. No guns, no cars, no weapons, death is still going to happen. Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a perfect world. I don't think I'll see it in my lifetime, I doubt any of you will.

In the meantime, control the gun sales, drive safer, let people mourn without all the headlines and publicity. I mean seriousy reread this article ! It's hard enough on them without all that crap !!!! Again my heart goes out to them. "

" Tammer65:

CCW holders committing crimes? Less than 1% of licensees nationwide. Accidents involving children? A few hundred each year out of 60 million owners.

Noone is talking about "more guns". These are about not banning the ones we have. "

" If you were talking to me RAK...well I was not really commenting on more guns or banning guns. I did mention controlling gun sales, that could be taken in a wide content. Not necessarily banning them, although I do have my opinion on that, which I did not mention nor will I go into that right now. My comments were basically about the drama from the media and publications and argueing over where something is put into the content of a newspaper. "

" :-) The Question...*LOL!* Where may I find a concealed car? I'd love to carry one of them around! *LOL!* "

" As for you HeinekenMan...what rock did you just crawl out from ? What are you a brain surgeon or just a wanna be brain surgeon or are you just full of Heineken. Your little comments werent to bad until you started listing the rules of the road...and then of course your GRAND FINALE about outlawing brains and of course the blood flow comment. What next ? What did the confined brain have to do with anything ? I see yours is working pretty well. "

" Just for good measure, here is one of the top stories from Florida for today. I should note there was also a story from Tampa saying that crime in the city is down 10 percent this year. But murder is up.

Here's one about an argument between two pack carrying guns. Keep in mind that they both had concealed, loaded weapons. And it was perfectly legal for them to carry them barring any felony convictions that stipulated they weren't allowed to own guns.

http://www.local6.com/news/15587337/detail.html "

" I'd like a concealed car too! :) "

" And by reading some of these post most people would agree that to outlaw brains you have to have one. "

" i think they want to have concealed handguns so they can give up their concealed kahoonas.....seems to me they're a bunch of whining cowards. "

" I don't get it either. It's not like cars and guns are apples and oranges or anything like that. "

" I have to admit the neutral studies I've seen generally come to mixed conclusions at best, but it seems as though pro-gun supporters consistently try to use facts to back up their arguments (even if their facts are somewhat slanted), and anti-gun supporters generally try to use bad logic at best and silly emotional appeals at worst. "

" The reason why we you LEFTS dont want us to conceal a weapon is because our Coles County SA dont want anyone to come in there and rob them. "