We need background checks for car ownership same as with guns

"Doug" > wrote in message
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> "Bucky" > wrote in news:1147332735.468235.112400
> @j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
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>> Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
>>> Cars are even more deadly.
>>
>> In absolute numbers, barely. There are roughly 40,000 vehicle deaths
>> [1] each year in the U.S. compared to roughly 30,000 gun deaths [2]. I
>> don't have the data for this, but I'm sure there are far more vehicles
>> in the U.S. than guns. So the death *rate* is most likely far greater
>> for guns than vehicles.
>>
>> [1] http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/01/Auto...a_death_stats/
>> [2] http://www.guncite.com/cnngunde.html
>>
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> Not sure if this helps, but in 2004 there were 237,242,616 motor vehicles
> registered in the USA. According to table MV-1 of US DOT FHA Highway
> Statistics 2004. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs04/pdf/mv1.pdf
>
> Any one know how many guns there are?
>

It's estimated to be about the same.