Some interesting statistics and our priorities

In 2005, per the NHTSA:

Bicyclists killed by motor vehicles: 720 (92%)
Bicyclists injured by motor vehicles: 45,000 (up 9.8%)



And per the CDC:

Accidental firearm deaths: 789
Accidental firearm injuries: 15,388


Yet where is all the liberal energy being put? About (my guess) 99% or so into controlling firearms.

Whose interests are being served?

How many gun-related homicides were there?

It's World-O-Statistics! (let's compare apples to apples, please)

The "king's X, now laws don't apply to me" riding is probably the source of most accidents with cars.

If you have driven in a big city, you've nearly run over a bike rider downtown many times. When they ride between cars, they are virtually impossible to see and keep track of. When they ride down the wrong way, when they cut across several lanes in the middle of the block, when they don't stop for lights or signs.

and wont ever become a part of it.

we see it with pet issues like smoking

unless you compare it to the issue of bicycle safety. Yes, the automobile is a weapon of mass destruction. What is your point?

anguish, etc. being paid to the two situations.

As to my point, I suppose it's that the effect of making travel safe for human-powered and micro-powered vehicles would benefit all life on Earth to a immeasurably greater degree than all the firearm legislation ever imagined. Every creature on Earth is being killed by cars and the car-oriented lifestyle - the dead cyclists are just the (still not very visible) tip of that moving-at-deceptive-speed iceberg.

But nobody talks seriously about making the world safe for low-pollution travel. Stripping people of a Constitutional right, yeah. Making it possible for people to safely travel via hpv/mpv? What a hope!

In a way, it's like the subject of Tole's wonderful cartoon this morning: