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Geography, Business decisions, social choices and the general development of the United States over the past 100 years have created an environment in which the utility of the automobile is fundamentally unmatched. Banning cars would destroy American society. As it is, access to and control of cars is limited: first you need to buy one. Then it needs to pass a safety inspection. Then you need to license it. Then you need to insure it. Then you, as an operator, need to pass multiple tests in order to operate it. There is an entire subclass of the criminal code (moving violations) that govern the operation of automobiles.

The first car I bought at seventeen cost me $350. It was $200/mo to insure it because I was young. As rudimentary as my driver's ed course was, I still had to attend it. I still had to be supervised. I still had to be tested. By way of comparison, at 18 and one month I drove my car (50 miles round trip) to a trailer park and paid $59 for a Chinese assault rifle. I paid another $39 for 1400 rounds of armor-piercing ammo. I asked the "dealer" if any of this would be reported and he said "I write down your name, put it in a safe and ceremonially burn everything after two years." He never so much as asked to see my license.

I grew up with steering columns that impaled you like a bug in the event of a collision. Lap belts were introduced 8 years before I was born. I remember when three-wheelers were banned. I remember when seat belts became mandatory in my state. I remember the addition of third brake lights. I remember the addition of airbags. I remember the addition of side airbags. I remember the mandating of crumple zones. I remember why Americans hate Ralph Nader:

I'm not quite sure what your point is? But there is absolutely no fucking parallel between automobiles and guns. There never has been, there never will be. Guns have been at about the same level of use safety since the advent of the cartridge. Their misuse safety, on the other hand, has plummeted for purely cultural reasons. The use safety of automobiles, on the other hand, has risen admirably, even if you account for the prevalence of cell phones and distracted driving.

I have also never seen scared racists line up to buy fucking cars.