We need background checks for car ownership same as with guns

Doug > wrote in
:

> "Bucky" > wrote in news:1147332735.468235.112400
> @j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> 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?
>
> Doug
>

Aw crap! I didn't realize it was a loco laura thread until after I
responded. Never mind. I don't want to contribute one little bit.

Damn alternative school students. grumble grumble.

Doug