# Why should the Connecticut shooting change anything?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 17, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-the-connecticut-shooting-change-anything/644312 "2012-12-17T15:50:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-the-connecticut-shooting-change-anything/644312/50 "2012-12-17T20:35:56Z")

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> [@XT](#):
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> Either way. How many kids die each year in alcohol related accidents verse how many are killed each year in school shootings? How many people die each year in any sort of alcohol related incident verse how many are killed each year in any sort of gun related incident?

I’m getting tired of typing the same thing in every thread where people feel the need to bring alcohol into this discussion, so I’ll just copy/paste:

> [@How can we prevent drunk driving deaths?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-prevent-drunk-driving-deaths/644140/91):
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> Simple: Put a breathalyzer on every car, and it won’t start if you blow past a certain percentage.
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> Also, since you are so obsessed with this concept to deflect the gun issue how about this: When we all have self-driving cars and drunk driving has been eradicated, THEN can we ban guns? Or are you just going to shift to another false equivalence? Because if its the latter, you better get it lined up. Google cars aren’t that far away.

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