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The ratio of random gun shots to injury in a city is above 1/1,000 shots fired even excluding intended targets so by your own argument it's rather dangerous.

Also, most peoples risk threshold is far below that for good reason. If you take a 1/1,000 risk of death per day (as a sum of all activity's) you have less than a 50/50 shot of living 2 years. On an hourly basis assuming 15 active hours a day 1/100,000 risk of death per hour = 50/50 chance of living 13 years. Really, 1/100,000 per hour is about the rational threshold for dangerous vs safe but 1/500,000 is closer to average.

As to speeding laws that's a side issue. With it's own set of arguments that has little to do with gun control.



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