This is the number I found,
Yep, you are correct, I grabbed a figure from the wrong column I was reading. But that figure puts gun death and car deaths on a par with one another. Pool was also from the world column, should be "average of 3,536" for the US., stairs 1,307, ladders 412. etc etc. I think I needed more coffee.
Good, we all agree it was a horrible "accident"
I would not call a tire blowing out criminal. You still want to focus on one contributing factor, ignoring all the others. We all ready know the Dad was a major criminal, why is he not your focus, kid did not drive without him being allowed to by his Dad. I realize that some people can not accept an accident on face value, there must always be one someone or something to blame. That's not me, I stand back and look at as much of the total picture as possible.
The Speed limit on the two lane road they were driving on is 75 mph and it is stated that they were both traveling at a high rate of speed. That means their closing speed on each other was around 150 mph. They had to be very near one another when the tire blew, but lets say they were 1000 feet apart. The blowout yanked the truck across into the wrong lane, at best it would take a person about 3 seconds to try to correct another one second to be changing back, the closing rate of the cars was about 220 feet per second, it was all over in about 4.5 seconds. It would not matter who was driving, under those conditions their fate was set when the tire blew at that exact time.
I posted "is stated that they were both traveling at a high rate of speed." and also noted the speed limit was 75 mph and gave calculations based on that speed. How in the world could you arrive at "You're assuming neither party wasn't speeding."????????
what you really have a problem with is our right to own firearms
Not at all. No problem at all calling your rights to a gun as nothing more than a stupid and desperate clinging to a dead past.
yes, the passive attack on our rights by pretending you are so much smarter than every gun owner and you are the ultimate arbiter of what is a good reason to own a gun. I don't care. Your arguments are pathetic and your relevance to my rights is non-existent
All the way back to 2016, evidently.
People fuss about how having guns in the household means that children, if you ever have children in the house, can get ahold of your guns and cause disaster. Well its the same as anything dangerous you keep in your house such as cars and car keys. Whose to say your children won't get ahold of your car keys, or for that matter truck keys as in the case below, and take your car or truck out for a joyride and kill a bunch of people? Just take this case for instance.
13-Year-Old Was Driving Pickup That Struck Van Killing 9, NTSB Says
One must be 14 in Texas to start taking courses for a learner’s license and 15 to receive that provisional license to drive with an instructor or licensed adult in the vehicle.www.huffpost.com
can you cite a post of yours on the gun forum that contains an "intelligent argument" or is not a trolling attack on gun rights?
thousands. that's why even long time anti gun posters note my expertise in the areaCan you?
It is no pretense. I am certainly smarter than a person like you who cannot even argue his case without falling into a fallacy or just attacks the player because you're incompetent at actually arguing the points.
Why stop there?