It is estimated 20 million assault style guns are in American citizen hands. Fourteen of them have been used in mass murders. Care to guess how many people have died from automobiles on a percentage basis? Sheer numbers?
The
2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash was a
vehicle collision that occurred on October 24, 2015, in
Stillwater, Oklahoma, when a driver drove into a crowd watching the
homecoming parade for
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater on the university's campus.
[2] Four people were killed in the crash, and 46 others were reported injured.
Omeed Aziz Popal, a native of
Afghanistan, struck 18 pedestrians and killing one in the
San Francisco Bay Area with his black
Honda Pilot SUV on August 30, 2006, when he was 29 years old.
On the afternoon of July 16, 2003, George Weller, then age 86, drove his 1992
Buick LeSabre westbound down Arizona Avenue in
Santa Monica, California toward the city's popular
Third Street Promenade. The last few blocks of the street, before it ends at the ocean, had been closed to vehicle traffic for the biweekly
farmers' market.
Weller's car struck a 2003
Mercedes-Benz S430 sedan that had stopped to allow pedestrians through a crosswalk, then accelerated around a road closure sign, crashed through wooden sawhorses, and plowed through the busy marketplace crowd, traveling nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) at speeds between 40 and 60 mph (60 and 100 km/h). The entire sequence of collisions took at least 10 seconds.
By the time the car came to a halt, ten people had been killed and 63 were injured
