Guns are like . . . Motor Vehicles

A simile

Utility

I'd hope we can all see how both motor vehicles (MV) & guns carry some utility

MV's are obvious: transportation

Whether that is the transportation of you, other humans, or the s*** we buy

Guns are less obvious

Guns may be used for sport or for those who enjoy the taste of hunted animals,

guns are one of the most efficient ways to hunt deer, rabbits, etc

Responsibility

Both MV's & guns demand a sense of responsibility from their users

This responsibility stems from how both harness a lethal potential

This lethality can be either for the user or against another victim

Tragically,

it is too common in the 21st century that this responsibility is neglected

Whether a gun that is improperly stored

Or a drunk that grips a wheel

Usability

Another oddly comparable fact is that a MV & a gun are dependent

Guns depend upon ammunition

MV's depend on a fuel source, typically gasoline or electricity

"2nd Amendment"

To any 2A-advocates reading this,

my target audience extends far beyond the US of A's borders

License v. Permit

When I turned 16 years old,

I eagerly sought first my driver's learner's permit

& then after the requisite 6 months,

my full driver's license

I have never completed a hunter's safety course

Nor any type of permit for the 2 firearms that I legally own

(praise be to the great state of PA!)

The difference:
I have used both ~ certainly 1 far more frequently than the other
(as a hint, there was 1 year I topped over 30,000 miles driven)

According to this article,

an estimated 38,680 US citizens passed in MV crashes in 2020

From glancing over this other article,

an estimated 45,222 US citizens died from a firearm-related cause

I'd rather not "run the numbers"

on whether there are more MV's or guns in the US of A

But it seems reasonable to assume,

based solely on the above 2 statistics,

that a US citizen is more likely to die by gun than by MV

And yet ... I only had to take a test for the safer machine

Gun Control?

Some people tote that the US of A needs stricter gun laws

I'm never too sure what those shouters truly want

What would more strict gun laws look like?
Sound like?

Read like?

Would they be an infringement upon the 2nd Amendment?

What truly even tho was the heart of the law of the 2A?

If nothing else,

it appears prudent to me

that at a minimum some type of test should be passed to use a firearm

However,

I believe that the ownership of a gun
(as with the ownership of an MV)

be accessible to any US citizen
considering the potential collective commodity of a gun

Referring back to these machines' usability,

there is (to my knowledge)

no strongly enforced restriction to purchase gasoline

However!

There are stringent rules around the purchase of ammo

... or at least there is an age limit enforced

So perhaps the answer resides not in gun control

but instead in the control of the ammunition?

A Solution ...

At the time of this article's initial publication,

I am 28 years old

I do not hold the solution to this sticky problem

All I can hope to do is vomit my inner monologue out into the world

And hope that some piece of the spue is found beneficial