Current Events > are car rammings outpacing gun violence?

(+) Yeah! (+)

maybe not

but why is it like every other week some dude runs people down in a vehicle?
This seems like a growing problem. Don't think this used to be so common?

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/75680283
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We obviously have to ban cars.
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here is a very incomplete list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack

2017 Jerusalem truck attack, Israel (ramming people)
2017 Westminster attack, London, England (ramming + stabbing; some victims were thrown off Westminster Bridge by the ramming)
2017 Stockholm attack, Sweden (ramming people)
June 2017 London Bridge attack, England (ramming + stabbing).[29]
2017 Finsbury Park attack, London, England (ramming people)
June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack, Paris, France (ramming a police car)
2017 Levallois-Perret attack, Levallois-Perret, France (ramming soldiers)
2017 Charlottesville attack, during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States (ramming people


2017 Balneário Camboriú road rage[33]
2017 Heidelberg attack[34] [35]
2017 Krewe of Endymion incident[36]
2017 Antwerp attack, failed car-ramming in Belgium[37]
2017 Venezuelan protests, several cases of vehicle rammings during opposition marches by security forces or government supporters.[38][39][40][41][42]

2017 Times Square car crash[43]
2017 Melbourne car attack in Melbourne, Australia in which six people were killed and 36 injured.[44]
2017 Sandy attack, car-ramming and shooting in Sandy, Utah[45]
July 2017 Helsinki attack, Finland, ramming people[46]
August 2017 Helsinki attack, Finland, failed ramming[47]


2017 sure has a ton more than other years
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whitelytning posted...

We obviously have to ban cars.

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HypnoCoosh posted...

whitelytning posted...

We obviously have to ban cars.

won't need to since driverless cars will do the job for us

but in the meantime what can we do to stop this from getting worse or as bad as gun violence?
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Cars are cheap and easy to get and can be used to vause havoc pretty much anywhere. It's a great terrorist weapon when you think about it.
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Seems this must be said...guns and cars arent violent, teh people are.
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HBOSS posted...

Seems this must be said...guns and cars arent violent, teh people are.

ok
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darkphoenix181 posted...

HypnoCoosh posted...

whitelytning posted...

We obviously have to ban cars.

won't need to since driverless cars will do the job for us

but in the meantime what can we do to stop this from getting worse or as bad as gun violence?

address the reasons people are committing the attacks in the first place
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