Tuesday December 14th 2021
Times Square, New York
This View has been written by Kyle Anderson, an S6 pupil at Lasswade High School
Every time there is a mass shooting in the US and the question of gun control arises ardent defenders of Second Amendment rights usually rattle off the line;
“If we ban guns, should we ban cars too because they kill more people than guns do?”
and the answer is YES! 1.25 million people die a year from car crashes. That’s nearly the entire population of Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and Falkirk, the area Forth One covers, every single year.
If we include car-accident related injuries and disabilities, this brings our total up to 50 million per year, or the entire population of South Korea receiving whiplash all at once in one day. Over a 10 year period, that’s anywhere between 200 million and 500 million people injured, or give or take the entire US population.
Not only do cars directly kill people, they indirectly kill people too. A fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions in…
