minor detail

as i'm driving around all day shuttling here and there having to be places in less time than it takes to ride because i was given a schedule at the last minute...

cars... what makes a car an AR-15 vs a black powder musket rifle?

Power.

Disclaimer I know a LOT of gun people, hunters, collectors and otherwise enthusiasts.

And I think too much.

And I make connections others don't.

And it usually takes too long to explain to make it worth while.

But...

Why do people (the collectors and recreational shooters) want an AR-15? Same reason why the dentist wants a trek Project One in Livestrong colors. Same reason why someone would buy a 911 vs a two door economy hatch back.

Power.

A smart car could plow into a pack of 9 riders and maybe all of them would survive. Hit them with a 3/4 ton Pickup truck or some other oversized overkill vehicle of personal expression or luxury that has way more power and capacity than needed to move one person around yeah...  that's the missing bit in the horrible post i wrote that is probably all wrong.

I can keep drawing out this comparison to the absolute minutia. There's a fucking mountain of parallels that I can draw on to justify my controversial claim that a large car with excessive power is the AR-15 of cars. Do I need to? Maybe but maybe take emotions aside and it seems understandable but yes - cars are accepted killers to the tune of 30-40k people a year and millions more injured. If we were all driving low power boring cars with barely appropriate horsepower to get out of their own way...  well ya know what? That number would be considerably lower. It might go lower than gun deaths if we some how implement a cell jammer in ever car.

But hey.

we gotta get to bike races somehow and cars are cool and we're amuricans and shit man - cars rule this country and guns....  no matter how much people filibuster...

Tomorrow is a Hundo day. Today was great... end of day a cluster.

We'll see how it goes.

Still have to figure out dinner.

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