[usrusr]

I'd say it is exactly not like the new iPhone: repeated private gun buying happens for completing a collection (which never happens), not for upgrading to the latest keynote filler feature. When IPhone enthusiasts keep their discarded phones in some drawer it's more a matter of laziness than of building an arsenal.

[banned1]

This is a fair point. I guess it would be more like a car enthusiast. Regardless, both cars and iPhones kill more people than guns, but those facts are not as convenient to some groups of people.

[leereeves]

> iPhones kill more people than guns

How?

[smsm42]

I would guess the intent was to imply it's due to distracted driving (texting while driving or being on call and getting sufficiently distracted to cause an accident). Though laying it on the doorstep of iPhone specifically is not fair, nothing in iPhone makes it more prone to this than any other smartphone or even dumbphone model.

I also don't know whether the statistics about how many fatal accidents were caused by distracted driving exists (it's kinda hard to ask a person who died in a car accident whether they were texting before or not...) or is reliable. But given the ubiquity of both driving and cellphones, I wouldn't be surprised if there existed some data pointing to the way the parent post suggested. I wouldn't also make any far-reaching conclusions from it as the issues involved are of quite different nature, and the data, as I pointed, is probably very dirty anyway.

[banned1]

The facts are here:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

I’m just trying to point out how silly some point of views are in the current state of national discussions.

From the point of view of a 2A supporter, people are attempting to take away what is a RIGHT, while conveniently forgetting to address what is effectively a modern convenience (it is not a RIGHT to own an iPhone) that is factually more impactful on the presumed end goal.

But it makes for better TV ratings and yet another polarizing dividing issue (which is not, as there are high school kids trying to advocate for guns in schools, whose voices are being drowned out by the media and the kids “on the other side”

Imagine what it would be like if we had a march to take away the right to love the person you love, because some people who love like you do get more frequently sick of some disease.