Bullets don't shoot people. So why do cars 'kill' cyclists?

The implied analogy is limited.

Anti-gun folks argue that since so many people die as a result of handguns, they should be banned. But despite the fact that in car/bicycle crashes the cyclist inevitably gets the worst of it, no one is seriously calling for the elimination of automobiles.

The premise is false. Headlines or descriptions of events like *"Three innocent bystanders were hit when a spray of bullets burst through the door, killing 1 and injuring the other 2".

So... Bullet anthropomorphizing is also a thing.

Police and news media reflexively defend drivers to the point where the language they use is laughable if you aren't of that mindset. Go search for the nonsense phrase "intentional accident," millions of results.

Accident is a nice euphemism for when kids pee their pants, don't use it for when adults crash their cars. The gun community has excised "accidental discharge" from their vocabulary and replaced it with the more accurate "negligent discharge," lets do the same for drivers.

It's the same kind of weasel journalism as "officer-involved shootings".

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