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In reply to the discussion: What if Gun Owners Paid a Tax to Help Defray the High Costs of Gun Violence? [View all]metalbot
(1,058 posts)I'm taking specific issue with the study YOU cite entitled "Accurately comparing death rates from motor vehicle and firearm use". It's the title YOU used for YOUR post, and is the title of the article you reference.
That article argues:
1. Cars kill at a rate of 1 per 60 million miles traveled
2. Guns kill at a rate of 1 per 475000 rounds fired
3. Therefore guns are orders of magnitude more dangerous
Sorry, that's just sloppy bad math, research, and journalism. There is nothing "Accurate" about this methodology. When I say that the metrics that I suggested are crap, I mean that if you accept that mine are crap, then you surely must accept that the ones in the article are as well.
Nobody is disputing that people are intentionally killed with firearms orders of magnitude more often than with cars, and homicide statistics support this far better than the article you reference.