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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]Orrex
(63,172 posts)I drove about 120 minutes today @ 2700RPM, so that's 324,000 uses, give or take. I would estimate that I passed about 250 cars at approximately the same speed, so that's 81,000,000 uses. Four or six or eight times more, in fact, if we count individual firings of each spark plug.
A "use" is one period of use, from when it is picked up for use until it is put away. You know, like when you drive to the shooting range for an afternoon of responsible target practice. Two uses of the vehicle, one use of the gun (or of each gun). You might be inclined to call this arbitrary, but it's not. If you rented a gun, they wouldn't charge you based on the number of times you unholstered it but on the time that you had it in your possession for use. They might charge you for ammunition, but we're not talking about ammunition.
By either measurement, vehicles see a hugely greater incidence of use and correspondingly have a vanishingly small rate of fatality proportionally by comparison.
I'm very comfortable with the conclusion that this leads to.