how in the world can you suggest they are handled in any way safer than guns?

I was more suggesting that it's only with firearms that we see fanatical resistance to even common-sense regulation designed to keep people from being shot.

Nobody gives that kind of resistance to the idea that you have to have training, pass a test, get a license, and not have been caught recently doing something idiotic like driving while drunk, before you're allowed to drive a car on the streets.

gun and usage registration and licensing, etal. similar to cars. Granted some folks in the world at large do, but folks here don't from anything I'm seeing.

And it is worth noting however that

Regardless of whether promoted that way or not, we have more cars on the road, we own more cars per family, so we have in fact solved our epidemic of auto incidents with MORE CARS. Clearly it didn't solve it, but if you were to demand all families go back to one car, you'd get one hell of an uproar. If you demanded that they could only buy certain cars, you'd get an uproar. There's no valid reason for cars in the US to be able to exceed 70mph, but all of them do. Try to change that, you'd get an uproar.

So though again your premise is cute, it just falls apart. People would freak out if you tried to regulate too much regardless of how many children died in auto accidents today or yesterday or last year or tomorrow.

is that regulations often help but often it goes much deeper than just passing laws.

People's behavior and opinions must be changed.

Goes for violence in general, rape, domestic violence. Civil rights for all.

I'm not arguing with you at all. Just kind of going on a tangent.

about it being a societal issue both individually and collectively as we seem so drawn to and obsessed violence as a solution in everything from movies to games to real life, good guys and bad use it, our government uses it and excuses it's killings of women and children, torture, drones, and shock and awe,.. and how it all that belies all the peace loving things we pretend to teach our children.

keep the car on your own land. No registration, license, plates, or speed limits! Lots of 'farm' vehicles around here.