Notice how out of the more than 8,000,000 people licensed to carry, you only find a handful in a year who do something wrong with their guns?
Umm, Greggy, unless you believe tens of thousands of gun deaths and hundreds of thousands of gun injuries are a "handful," you're quite mistaken.
Here's where Greggy's silly comment goes quite wrong, however. It's that almost all gun deaths and injuries are preventable. Maybe not each one but certainly in the 99% range.
Let's look at air travel, for instance. Each year, millions fly billions of miles. And each year more passengers fly and more miles are flown. Yet, commercial aviation fatalities have decreased for the past two decades. That's because when an aviation accident occurs--steps are taken to fully understand what happened and to implement steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. This may mean more pilot training, changes to equipment or maintenance, modifications to procedures, better security, etc.
When 9/11 occurred, the airlines and Government didn't decide the proper response was to loosen security and hand out boxcutters at the boarding gate.
Same goes for drunk driving. It wasn't long ago that drunk driving was treated like a parking ticket. When greater penalties and enforcement came about--drunk driving deaths have decreased 50% despite more drivers driving more miles. Again, the response to drunk driving wasn't to install beer kegs in cars.
