which causes more problems - guns or alcohol

[The Straight Story]

Poll question: which causes more problems - guns or alcohol

[Poppyseedman]

1. If people don't stop posting silly polls I'm going to shoot my bottle

of Jack Daniels. Problem solved

Neither of them cause problems. People do.

I never owned gun that shot someone by itself and never had a bottle of booze make me drunk by staying in the cabinet

[The Straight Story]

8. Maybe you should post a poll about stupid polls :)

I think I know how ya voted - lol

[f-bush]

2. Both are bad

[Horse with no Name]

3. Can't we just outlaw idiots and be done with it?

:shrug:
Cause that is REALLY the problem, not what is in their hands.

[-..__...]

5. Hold my beer and watch this.

You've been to U-Mass frat parties and Red Sox games too?

[0007]

10. That's what some Texans say just before a crashing their truck.

[The Straight Story]

9. I think they were outlawed, then got back into power....(nt)

[LiberalEsto]

4. Stupidity n/t

[vicman]

6. Guns

soaked in alcohol might not be a bad thing...

[usregimechange]

7. That was easy, alcohol by far.

[benEzra]

11. Alcohol, by a factor of three to ten...

10th Special Report to the US congress on Alcohol and Health
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/10report/intro.pdf

A large percentage of homicides and other crimes involving guns are committed under the influence of alcohol, as are many gun-related suicides and accidents (though there are very, very few gun accidents to start with).

The difference is how people respond. We take a fairly rational approach to alcohol--minimum age to possess and use, and laws to prohibit/deter MISuse. Prohibition is not even on the table, because we are smart enough to realize that prohibition doesn't work.

Interestingly, the percentage of Americans who support bringing back alcohol prohibition is roughly the same (20%) who support widespread gun prohibition...

[newswolf56]

12. One of the primary axioms of firearms safety is:

Gunpowder and alcohol don't mix.

The axiom's great age is evident simply by the way it's phrased: from the time firearms were loaded from powder-horn and shoulder-bag -- before the days of fixed ammunition and therefore at least 150 years old if not far older.