FishingBanter - View Single Post - OT - Should passing a drug test be a requirement for gun purchase/ownership?

**RD (The Sandman)**

wrote in
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:33:19 -0500, "RD (The Sandman)"
wrote:

"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" wrote
in .70:

Nicholas wrote in
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:12:35 -0500, Another Sunny Day
wrote:

Guns can kill the same way that cars can. Why not hold operations
of both to the same standards?

60,000 deaths/year from on the road traffic accidents. How many
from LEGAL use of firearms again? I forgot your *statistic.*

Nick

Actually annual highway deaths have been around 42,000 last 5 years
although last year was around 37,000 due to the bush depression. But
it's still much higher than the 32,000 annual gun deaths - and half
of those are suicides and shouldn't count.

Suicides, by definition have at least one willing participant.

FWIW, if you don't realize it, you (and any who respond without
trimming the headers) are cross-posting to a number of unrelated
groups. If you do realize it, um, well...carry on, I guess...

I don't crosspost. I do, however respond to posts I find in
talk.politics.guns. I have no control over those folks, but I do intend
for my comment to reach the poster I am responding to even though I have
no idea which forum *they* crossposted from. It really is a difference.

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