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What a crap title...

Cars don't kill people, anymore than guns do. It's the idiot behind the wheel/trigger that's doing the killing.

These pieces of metal are built to be controlled by responsible humans. They do not make decisions for you, anymore than a spoon is making the decision for me to eat another bowl of cereal!

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That's kinda a useless distinction. Nobody read that title and pictured sentient guns tracking down and hunting humans. Autonomous cars doing that might almost be plausible, but realistically the same applies there.

"Gun related fatalities are currently as high as automotive related fatalities in the U.S. for the first time" might be a more precise statement, but it's a worse headline.

What's easier? Outlawing idiots or outlawing guns?

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