I watched the RC club zipping remotes over peoples heads and diving at the crowd at probaly at least 60 mph(talk about dangerous) our littlr car and airshow wont even allow you to touch the aircraft or even close look now,The huge truck and suv bumpers that match your head level are the ones that should be regulated(they are real car killers(check out the Hyundai CUV truck concept,neat as all get out and super practical-we can have our cake and eat eat it(mpg-Hi 30s with small turbo diesel,bring it on)
The gun business? I do agree with Dag,but did you notice how low the murder incidence is in heavily armed Isreal,what about Switzerland?.
Electrics and Diesels will be the game changers(of course including Hybrids-cost be danged,cost doesnt seem to matter on trucks,paid for with our increasingly “airy” dollars.
You have to be careful when comparing crime, accident, suicide, theft rates between different countries.
Does Japan have one of the world’s highest suicide rates because they suffer depression, or are they simply more likely to report a death as a suicide instead of finding a way to make it an “accident”?
In the U.S. violent deaths go in the record book as “homicides” even if not solved. In many places, unsolved murders are “suspicious deaths”.
A good example of how reporting criteria can skew statistics is to look at our own automobile fatality rates from 1982 onward. There was a sudden and permanent drop in fatalities. What happened? Before 1982, if you survived one day short of a year after the accident, your death was attributed to a car accident. From 1982 onward, that period was reduced to a month.