Do guns, cigarettes and speed kill?

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Do guns, cigarettes and speed kill? Or do people who fool around with them kill?

guns- kill, because the person fooling around with it can kill ANOTHER person who wasn't fooling with it
cigarettes-yes even if your not the one smoking it, it can kill you from second hand smoke
speed-If your driving super fast and run into a tree it can kill the person fooling around, but you can also hit an innocent bystander

so both.

I thought that the OP were talking about amphetamines.

A lack of control is what kills in the case of two of them.

Answer: None of those three things can hurt or kill anyone. People who smoke in public will slowly and surely kill those around them, and themselves of course. For a more direct and dramatic kill, people who use speed or other drugs while handling such things a guns or cars, will kill people sooner. Same goes for people who are not disciplined or trained to handle guns or cars. I have cars, knives, and guns, and none has ever hurt or killed anyone, and never will. I don't smoke, and I don't take drugs, and I handle all machines (including my guns and cars), very responsibly as all such owners should.

Charles

I think that it's the responsibility level of the person, who'd messing or dealing with those three things.

I take amphetamines for my ADHD during school. I doubt that will kill me.

"Gun don't kill, people with them do" is just an excuse for gun owners who want keep having laws about having guns.

I think people saying guns and cigarettes don't kill and speeding only want an excuse.

They do if you throw them hard enough.

You can't really compare guns to cigarettes. One is a weapon and the other contains an addicting substance. (which does indeed kill) Cigarettes aren't a weapon and guns don't contain nicotine.

Though guns are, in general, used for self defense. They save lives in America because people are going to carry them no matter what. So it's better than everybody carries them than just the criminals you know?

I think what you're talking about is a chicken-and-egg riddle which depends on your philosophical outlook.

It's our constitutional right as Americans though. How many people are going to give it up? Gun laws don't work. Criminals will carry them no matter what. Should we let ourselves get killed?

Asp-Z,

I bet if you do some digging, you'll find that homicides and violent assaults don't really change in number, rather, the method used does. If a firearm is easily obtained, of course an individual wanting to kill someone will use one. If they aren't, they'll then resort to another method that's equally effective. Hence, laws that prohibit the ownership of weapons (I'll include bows and other projectile weapons here) for non-violent individuals are actually moot in effect.

Firearms are a weapon, that the user wields to kill or inflict grievous bodily harm; just like any weapon or not. Fists kill in the same way.

"Everything" can kill when wielded or not.

The same goes for any substance, energy transfer, a fatal change of velocity, and whatnot.

Taking away projectiles will not remove crime, which is why people want to remove them in the first place. I think Daniel was saying this.