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Another answerIt is difficult to compare safety of two completely different types of tools. Cars accidentally kill thousands of people every year and there are a few intentional collisions; guns are used to kill thousands of people every year intentionally and there are a few accidents. Police officers all have guns and cars. How many were killed in single-car wrecks last year and how many were shot with their own guns?Yet Another Answer
Both are inanimate objects that must become animate through the user of the vehicle or the gun, both can be used for good and evil and it all comes down to the user of the device, a gun alone is not evil nor good until someone uses it in a particular task.
An Answer based on StatisticsOn numbers from 2007 unless otherwise noted:
Car StatisticsAccording to DOT:
247,000,000 registered vehicles in USA
41,259 US fatalities due to vehicle accidents
3,030,000,000,000 miles driven in US
According to EPA:
Average MPG per vehicle on the road is/was around 20.5 mpg. (estimated up from http://tinyurl.com/4geg5pw, which is data for the year 2001. This number may be off.)
Gun StatisticsAccording to CDC:
31,224 gun deaths
According to National Academy of Sciences (and quoted by NRA in their pro-gun literature: http://tinyurl.com/28ra8c):
266,000,000 estimated guns owned in the USA
I couldn't find a real estimate of rounds of ammunition sold per year, so here's the best number I could (and it is likely a high number):
1,529,635,000 rounds of ammo were sold in December, 2008, during the peak of the Obama-will-limit-your-guns scare, according to ammoland.com (http://tinyurl.com/gunsales1208).
This x 12 = a potentially high estimate of 18,355,620,000 bullets sold a year. (I'm using the layman's term "bullet" instead of "round." I understand the difference ...) This is the least validated number in this set of calculations.
SO, doing the math:
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If the number of bullets sold is indeed high, then the statistics make a bullet even more dangerous then shown above. And likewise, if they were low, then a bullet is less dangerous than shown above.
From this, one could argue that it is a little more dangerous to own a car, but much more dangerous to use a gun.
^ This whole thing, is a silly comparison. Bullets cannot be compared to miles or gallons of gas.
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