Are you suggesting that a gun is less dangerous than the smallest car on the market?
If you don't think a gun is less dangerous, how can you justify people buying them without some sort of check that you can handle it safely, physically or intellectually?
If you believe a gun is less dangerous, I guess you have your reasons....
Factually in our nation more people are killed by vehicles every year than all gun activity combined (lawful use of force and illegal use of force combined)
Approximately 1/3 of all the people "killed by guns" used the gun to kill themselves. Typically about 11,000 +/- people a year kill themselves with guns. Me personally I dont consider these 11,000 deaths to actually be a crime as how do you stop someone intent on self destruction? Sounds like a mental illness to me....
But even given that in an average year you people in the US are killed by household poisons than all actions with any guns. All my facts and figures come from the Center for Disease Control and if I can reasonably find it I will include the link to the engine to derive the numbers so you can check my facts for yourself. And yes cars are more dangerous than guns for several reasons. Even the smallest commercial cars have significant weight, a bullet on the other hand is part of an ounce or in some cases on the very low end of the ounce scale.
http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html - the facts the anti gunners cannot defeat....
E=MC2 - A handgun will generally have a limited recoil that should be equal and opposite to the force being shot forward... A car will have a similar effect as it is driven forward. A car will certainly take more energy to move and thus will take more energy to stop in comparison to a bullet...
(And yes I am not using the full set of science terms but the fact remains a bullet takes less to stop than a car at normal driving speed.)
The reason we don’t try to outlaw cars is almost everyone who is an adult is familiar with cars and they aren’t considered strictly dangerous by the general joe on the street, the same is not true for guns..... Yet factually they are both property and with few exceptions can never do anything without a human controlling the action.
People need cars for transport and thus use them every day and generally they feel comfortable with them. People may only "need" a gun for self-defense once in a lifetime although hunting and other uses are as legitimate as driving.
The rub is how many people are breaking the laws in cars every single day? How many people speed every day? Drink while driving? Road Rage? Yet people aren’t raising cain about car control..... Why because they dont want to walk to work and the store etc....
People raise cain about gun control because the media in large part focuses language to make almost anything with a gun negative and controversial. also lots of people have never held nor ever touched a gun so it seems to be some evil unknown that our media reports negatively on every day.
How do I justify people buying a gun without a permit? Rights dont require permits... where is the free speech permit? Freedom of religion permit? Freedom of the press permit? If your of the age of majority and not in prision our Consitution seems to be quite clear that you have a right to keep and bear arms...
Nowhere does our constitution say a felony conviction = gun rights removal... It does have a due process of law clause but again I think the founding father would agree that if you werent in prison you as a citizen have a right to arms...
on my final note keep in mind those same mentally ill could be driving a 1000+ pound vehicle....