I read in the paper recently that two boys, ages 11 and 13, borrowed some firearms from their grandfather's house and fired into a schoolyard, killing several girls and a teacher and injuring others. They even borrowed a motor vehicle to get to where they did the shooting from. Now the curious thing is that although they were under age to use the motor vehicle, they weren't under age to use the firearms. The news is full of stories about children who are killed by guns they were playing with, because the owner of a gun either didn't know how to store it safely, or wasn't aware of the responsibility to store it safely. We even have people owning guns who don't know how to use them, or are even physically incapable of using them.
Guns are dangerous.
So are motor vehicles. Somehow we have managed to regulate motor vehicles without fomenting hostility between drivers and pedestrians. Toward Cars Cars are dangerous. More Americans have died in motor vehicle accidents in this century than in wars. But we have agreed to live with that hazard.