Re: The right to bear arms & make salad

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Actually the U.S. government has been involved in car safety standards for
30+ years.  During this time, automobile death rates have dropped
substantially.

U.S. government anti-smoking campaigns have also dropped smoking rates and
smoking-related deaths substantially.  Imagine flying on an airplane
nowadays if smoking was still allowed.  

As far as fat people go, is your proposal that we stop eating? ;-)

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:02 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] The right to bear arms & make salad

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:55:31 CDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:

> In the US (population c. 298.5m) there were an estimated 16,137 homicides
in
> 2004 (FBI, 2006a) - a rate of about 5.4 per 100,000. Of these, 10,654 were
> carried out with guns (FBI, 2006b).

How many people died in car crashes in 2004?

How many people died from tobacco and alcohol related issues in 2004?

How many people died from weight-related issues in 2004?

If we're looking at banning stuff because people are dying, let's at least
save more lives by banning cars, tobacco, alcohol, and fat people.

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