Something to ponder.

According to some estimates, 40,200 people died in accidents involving motor vehicles in 2016, a 6 percent rise from the year before. If true, that works out to about 112 deaths per day! Now, contrast that to homicides committed by gun wielding individuals....

Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit organization that tracks media and law enforcement reports of shootings. That works out to about 43 deaths per day, and that figure includes criminal activity, for the most part.

Here's the 'vital' difference, ignoring the unintended pun. Most car deaths were the result of random factors that came together to kill, while gun fatalities via crooks were almost always intentional. (Now to be fair, somewhere between 1 to 4% of those killed were due to the actions of deranged actors). This is disturbing to me.

Our society seems to accept death, via car, as a matter of course. It's just a fact of life. A risk we all take every time we get into our vehicles to go someplace. While a very sad statistic, nobody blames the car!

Now contrast that thought to getting killed by a gun via criminal action. So, who do some people blame? The gun of course. (That concept is being carried to the extreme in some 'sanctuary' cities that actively protect illegal alien criminals while STILL railing against current gun laws).

The bottom line is that death happens all the time. You can't avoid it entirely. Sure, some of the factors can be employed to reduce that outcome; better designed cars, etc. Other factors, like deaths via guns could be curtailed by removing the criminal element from the rest of our society. But here's a disturbing fact. The Left along with some Liberal Progressives, seem intent on blaming an object (the gun) for effects that are caused by people. What surprises me, more than anything else, is that they haven't (yet) launched a campaign to ban our cars!