B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 09, 2016

The Flintstones roadster.

“Responsible for more deaths….”

You must mean politics.

Sometimes the automobile deaths are assisted by alcohol.

Cars don’t kill people. People kill people. And anyway…Cars are not the weapon of choice of world class mass murderers. Guns should be cheap. Bullets should cost $5,000 each.

Cars don’t kill people. People kill people. And anyway…Cars are not the weapon of choice of world class mass murderers. Guns should be cheap. Bullets should cost $5,000 each.

Hmmm. Around 33,000 die from car accidents, 33,600 from firearms, and 88,000 from alcohol-related causes. So he’s saying that 33K is more than 121.6K? That must be this “new math” I’ve heard about.

Quite often, if you kept the alcohol away from the guns and cars, all fatalities would do a nosedive.

That is true, it’s a general purpose killer vehicle. Name it a GP. Wait, my mistake, that’s how Jeep got its name in WW2. GP vehicle became jeep when the acronym wasn’t short enough to say. And they got stuck in mud and needed foot power like a Flintstone car to move it.

Placing the blame for human stupidity on inanimate objects is very slightly removed from transferring human guilt onto an animal and driving it off into the wilderness.Magical thinking.

Looks more like a Lunar Rover.

It’s a Tesla.

Don’t think that firearms or alcohol have been invented yet. The slingshot, I’d say almost certainly. But that is a spiffed up set of wheels.

Yabba dabba doo!

It’s the sport model .

Unsafe at any speed.

My idea is to tax them. Guns and bullets it worked for tobacco why not NRA items. The tax money could be for the young peoples medical and burial costs.

DemocideGovernment is probably the most efficient killer

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTMNice thesis

For republicans the cars cause more deaths. For democrats, guns and alcohol cause more deaths.

Then there’s the champion killer – medical mistakes, which end the lives of about 1,000 Americans per day. ’Don’t hear any calls to outlaw physicians, though…strange.

NO brakes

It’s new technology: Based on the wheels they ride around on.

curious how the steering works

Remember that fire arms are used in War. Unless you want to include Tanks are cars.

Well, this one went downhill quickly…

Then it crashed!

If you commit a crime and some one dies, you can be charged with murder one. If the cops shoot, and an innocent person dies, it can be murder one. If you’re fleeing the cops, and the cop has an accident and someone dies, it can be murder one. The reasoning is that your completely preventable actions killed someone. So can someone give me a coherent reason why killing someone DUI is not first degree murder?

Boise Ed: 60% of those numbers you quote in your firearms number are suicide events. How many of the automobile statistics are suicide? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html?_r=0

Alcohol, firearms and cars have one redeeming quality…they keep the US population from skyrocketing!

Must have been a nut loose behind the steering wheel.

This strip got lost on its way to the editorial pages.

Almost all mass killings and genocides in history have been perpetrated by governments that were too powerful to be regulated by their constituents, and which ruled with impunity and no fear of any law greater than their own proclamations.How is allowing gun control not genocide, then?Don’t play stupid with me.I am much more experienced at it.

Actually, it was “phil m” who asked that. But I do wish I could silence those who say falsehoods.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm Doesn’t break out cars from other kinds of accidents, but shows the biggest general causes of death.

Boise said,@DavidHuieGreen“Actually, it was “phil m” who asked that. But I do wish I could silence those who say falsehoods.”. My bad. Here, lemme fix it.ACTUALLYphil m said, about 5 hours agoIs this a comic strip, or a pulpit for the NRA to spread false information?.NOT

.DavidHuieGreen said, about 3 hours agoBoise Ed asked,“Is this a comic strip, or a pulpit for the NRA to spread false information?”.And my response was:.It’s a comic strip, at least the thing at the top is. The commentary below that is whatever the readers wish to say.Your question reads as if you wish you could silence those who say things you don’t like..To which I now add:.The danger lies in having people with power to silence those who they decide are saying things they don’t like or believe to be untrue..Your system of pointing out false attribution gets the truth out there and shows those who lie or mistakenly say something..(Now I shall delete my false statement above while showing what it was here.)

@Boise Ed@tsandl“What conceivable good do guns do?”.dhg said:“They allow weaker good people to resist stronger bad people.That’s why bad people want them too.”.“The question is actually a bit silly, since all you have to do is look at their legitimate uses to know they exist.”.………………………………………..So I wasn’t saying that guns exist, but answering the question that legitimate uses for guns exist, dhg.@DavidHuieGreen“All I have to do is look at many, many murders to know that guns exist.”.Many and most, but not all.Guns are often misused or are properly used to do an improper thing such as murder people.(If you want to kill someone, you want to make sure he or she dies. Guns are good at that. You shouldn’t want to murder people, but people seldom listen to me.).Many believe the illegitimate uses outweigh the legitimate ones.That is a separate question with more aspects than most want to admit exist or consider.

The Obama presidency?

By itself, the strip was just a mildly amusing joke but the commentators jumped at the chance to try to start a political flame war.

…and then burned!

IT’s not responsible for any death’s. Nor are firearms or alcohol or drugs. (Hint: It’s the people who use those products who are responsible. Duh!)

Because with some basic tools I can make a gun and make the necessary hardware for making bullets. So can any other mechanically minded person. If you think that approach will work then you must think that prohibition worked well.

better ban it