''Ban the guns''? Perhaps cars and Tazers too...

If the gun ban extremists truly believe banning inanimate objects can save lives, where are their calls for bans on cars?

Vehicles kill more officers than guns
Columbus Dispatch, December 12, 2004

The deadliest weapon law-enforcement officers face isn’t a gun.

It’s a moving vehicle.

In the past decade, traffic-related incidents have overtaken gunshots as the leading cause of officer deaths in the United States.

From 1999 through 2003, 44 percent of officer deaths were traffic-related; 34 percent were caused by firearms.

Officer Dave Daugherty, a 10-year veteran of the unit, said his cruisers have been struck seven times, putting him in the hospital three times.

"When we make a traffic stop and approach a car, we worry more about being run over than we do about being shot," he said.

The good news, Floyd said, is that the on-duty death rate for officers is on the decline.

In the 1970s, officers were killed at a rate of about one in 1,500, he said. Today, the rate is about one in 6,000.

Hmmm...and the number of legally-armed citizens has increased exponentially in the same time period.

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The gun ban lobby embraced bans on self-defense with firearms in Ohio for 150-years. Why no calls for banning self-defense with a Tazer?

Taser-toting felons top self-defenders
East Valley (Mesa, AZ) Tribune, December 14, 2004

A marketing campaign by Scottsdale-based Taser International urges people to buy its latest dartshooting stun gun 'to safely protect your home and family.'

However, news reports from the last three years show more people are using electroshock weapons to commit crimes than to defend against muggers or rapists. In a computer database search, the Tribune found 11 national reports in which police said stun guns were used by criminals in attacks. Two other criminal cases, detailed in a Nov. 30 Amnesty International report, involved parents who shocked their children as a form of discipline...