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What about an individuals unalienable right not to be murdered? Shouldn't that carry some weight? (Most developed countries believe so.)
Of course it should carry some weight. I'm just pointing out that the car analogy isn't quite as clearly supportive of the specific gun regulations that advocate sometimes believe it is. And after all, it's also bad when people are killed in car crashes, whether we characterize that as an "inalienable right" or not. The point rather is that firearms and automobiles are very different from each other, and the regulatory scheme we have adopted for automobiles doesn't really map well onto what a firearm regulatory system would look like (wholly unrestricted private ownership, heavy regulation on public streets).
