Trucks More Lethal than Guns? Yeah

Shooting Down Gun Control Memes

2-20-18, Daniel Greenfield -- In 2016, Muslim terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel from Tunisia killed 86 people and wounded another 458 ... with a truck. The killer had brought along a gun, but it proved largely ineffective. Mohammed, who was no genius, used his truck to kill more people than Stephen Paddock [59 dead, 10/1/17] in Las Vegas. ​

Do we need truck control? 

Deadlier than the truck is the jet plane. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001 by Islamic terrorists with a plane and some box cutters.

And then there are always the bombs.  

The Boston Marathon bomber wounded 264, a suicide bomber at the Manchester Arena last year wounded 250 and the Oklahoma City Bombing (the only non-Islamic terror attack on the list) killed 168 and wounded 680.

And knives.
Japan knife attack: 19 or more deaths
7-26-2016, CNN -- Former employee of Japanese facility for disabled people turns himself in after killing 19 people with a knife.

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Guns are not uniquely lethal. We live in a world filled with extremely lethal objects from chemical compounds, baseball bats to big trucks. We can license and regulate some things. But we can’t regulate everything. Wicked people kill ... the tools they use cannot with out direction.  [..snip]

Gun control isn’t a policy. It’s a moral panic. Like prohibition, it’s a xenophobic reaction to a different culture that shares the same country with them. Guns have come to embody a rural conservative culture in the minds of urban leftists. That’s why the “common sense solution” talk quickly gives way to broad denunciations of a “national gun culture”, of “white privilege”, of rural folk “clinging to their Bibles and guns”, of American militarism and toxic masculinity, and of all the things for which guns are merely a symbol to the leftists who hate them. It isn’t guns the left wants to ban... it’s people. More here