Car Regulations vs Firearm Regulation

Yesterday, VSSA Executive Director Lu Charette forward this article from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) that points out traffic fatalities rose 7.7 percent last year and more than 35,000 people were killed, yet President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Congressional Democrats have not called for cracking down on car owners the way they do on gun owners.  It's one of the things you hear from the gun ban crowd from time to time that it's easier to get a gun than it is to drive a car.

CCRKBA is turning the gun ban lobby's argument back on them but as Dr. John Lott points out in his new book The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, and earlier this month on Armed American Radio, the gun ban crowd compares apples to oranges in making the comparison between guns and cars because the majority of deaths involving automobiles are due to accidents/negligence.  Accidental/negligent deaths involving firearms are at all time lows and are around 500-600 per year.