Americans have guns, Germans have cars.

[Nevermore]

I wish this was a joke, but the parallels are too eerily similar at this point.

Whenever gun restructions or even bans are even mentioned in the US, the right riles up behind the "second amendment, mah freedums" talking point.

Whenever a general speed limit is mentioned in Germany, there is a lot backlash by the "mah freedums" crowd, which quickly quells any further debate.


Guns are the most common weapon used in murder sprees in the US.

In Germany, the preferred weapon of choice is the car (or truck).

2016 Berlin truck attack - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Two dead after vehicle hits crowd in Münster, Germany

Driver also dead after shooting himself after incident in historic part of German city, which also left 20 people injured

www.theguardian.com

Car 'intentionally' plows into carnival crowd in Germany

Police in the German town of Volkmarsen have arrested a 29-year old man, after a car plowed into a crowd of people at a parade on Monday and left at least 30 injured.

edition.cnn.com

Trier in shock after driver kills five – DW – 12/02/2020

The southwestern German city of Trier is still reeling a day after a car was driven into a pedestrian zone, killing five people. One of the country's top clerics has offered his condolences.

www.dw.com

Man detained after driving car into Berlin crowd, killing teacher

Police say 14 children on school trip injured on road adjacent to 2016 fatal attack

www.theguardian.com

 

[Ungnome]

Sadly cars as weapons is all to common stateside as well. Guns are just more convenient.

 

[Pocket]

Both countries need to abandon car culture and join the rest of the civilized world in embracing mass transit. Germany, arguably, has less of an excuse because it's a mostly-urbanized, densely-populated country like the rest of Europe. The US is so damn spread out that nothing short of forcibly relocating people from the suburbs back into the cities would fix people's reliance on cars, but at the very least we could ensure that those cities have better infrastructure.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

"...The US has the highest rate of firearms deaths among the world's wealthy nations, but is a country where many cherish gun rights that are protected by the Constitution's Second Amendment to "keep and bear arms"...

(Quote:- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61777310 )