Kars Kill Kids

Guns are indeed dangerous, but much much less than cars. You don't have gun types going out and popping away at the neighborhood kids for fun, but you do have soccer moms roaring into small cul-de-sacs where kids are playing, often gambling that the kids will get out of the way in time. You don't have kids walking to school in a live-fire zone, Oakland excepted lol.

Cars were originally the playthings of the rich, and that's where the attitude comes from. Before cars the rich were at times running down proles in their carriages for fun, look it up.

'The rich don't commit crime, they only have amusing peccadilloes.' - Terry Pratchett from one of his disc world series books.