It's treated that way when it's automobiles.

Smoking tobacco? 10x the number, treated as a statistic. But guns, those are peculiar.

You mean the thing that is very heavily regulated and has warning stickers all over it? They aren't even allowed to advertise in anything but trade magazines anymore and smoking is consistently going down.

For something so heavily regulated it's still highly accessible with a flourishing black market and an enormous death count. Especially of children.

2nd hand smoke kills many more *infants* than semi automatic rifles kill anyone of any age in a given year.

What about from age 2-18? Smoking continues to be more and more regulated and sees fewer deaths. Guns see less regulation and more deaths. Are you really this okay with so many dead children due to gun violence?

I am not. I am also not ok with smashing prohibition buttons without any regard to the many unintended consequences that accompany that policy choice.

It sure seems like you are since you seem so against any kind of regulation. Sure there will be some unintended consequences but continuing to do nothing means children continue to die from gun violence in larger numbers than anywhere else in the developed world. Enjoy killing children I guess.

I'm against using the carceral system to accomplish an upstream problem, when that carceral approach won't really solve the dead kids problem very effectively while triggering all kinds of other problems. No other country comes close to the scale of US gun proliferation. It's simply not comparable.

All I keep hearing is that you are totally fine with kids dying from gun violence. Why don't you just say it clearly and plainly?

This moron was telling me stolen cars kill more kids than guns.

You're talking about smoking right? The thing that has had major decreases in use the more and more it's regulated?

Yes. The thing that has had major decreases in death from a very-big-number to a smaller but still very-big-number, while requiring the increasingly harsh prosecution of a lot of relatively innocent people on the possession of illicit tobacco. Remember Eric Garner?