Thursday, April 04, 2013

Choose your weapon—cell phone or rifle

Distracted driving, aka talking texting on a cell phone, is estimated to cause 333,000 total injuries, and 2600 fatalities annually. (JAMA, vol. 309, no. 9. p. 877)  In 2010 there were 358 murders involving rifles. (Wikipedia)  Gun violence has been dropping for 20 years (DOJ, Bureau of Statistics), while cell phone deaths have been increasing. The President is proposing new federal restrictions on gun ownership, which won't affect criminals at all, only law abiding citizens. And he is giving away cell phones.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/guntime1.html

So the government is actually killing people with free cell phones! The federal government gives away "Obama phones," a misnomer since the program was begun under Reagan in 1984 (Lifeline) with land lines so the poor would have a phone, and Bush expanded it to cell phones in 2008. Mean old nasty Republicans who didn't care about the poor.

2 comments:

Norma said...

Mingo County WV Sheriff Eugene Crum, known for his tough stand against the drug trade, was fatally shot Wednesday where he usually parks his car for lunch. Is there anything in Obama's proposed gun control that could have prevented this illegal act? Or the other recent deaths of people in law enforcement?

Anonymous said...

Murray sez:
Nope!