Why do we accept Car Death?

Why are cars acceptable, but guns aren't? Cars are SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous than guns! How many lives have been saved with cars compared to how many people have been killed by cars?

The conservative estimate of legal defensive uses of firearms in the U.S. in the early 2000's was around 500,000 times annually. Obviously that means that around 475,000 of those uses did not involve shots being fired. And that's on the LOW end; one estimate put it closer to 2,000,000. So, AT LEAST 500,000 instances per year of a firearm being used in legitimate, legal self-defense. Can someone tell me how many lives were saved with cars? How many times did civilians, not EMS, use their car to save a life? How many times did civilians, not law enforcement, use their cars to stop crimes?

Ignoring, for the moment, DUI, negligence, and criminal misuse, MIT says air pollution leads to close to 200,000 deaths annually in the U.S. In Baltimore, MD alone “the highest emissions-related mortality rate in Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year due to long-term exposure to air pollution.” Compared to fewer than 500 in the same location, same length of time, from firearms usage. (number achieved by combining 2015 firearms-related murders with estimates of accidental fatalities from the same year, and rounding UP).

From those numbers, guns SAVE 2.5 times as many people as air pollution kills. That's setting-aside crashes and just looking at emissions. Granted, that's emissions from a variety of sources, but aren't automobiles the largest source of atmospheric pollution? "Mobile sources account for more than half of all the air pollution in the United States and the primary mobile source of air pollution is the automobile, according to the Environmental Protection Agency."  Wouldn't banning them remove the primary source of toxic air pollution? Wouldn't we save MORE lives if we got rid of cars, at least in the large cities where they aren't needed, than from every gun control measure combined?

Londoners are calling for the banning of cars in THEIR city. How about we follow THAT European example? I already posted the article from Sweden about the journalist advocating banning cars in the city because they are the weapon-of-choice by terrorists in Europe.

Looking at numbers for 2015 and 2016, you're around 2.5 times more likely to be killed by the criminal or negligent misuse of a car than a gun:

Found at Gun Violence Archive: Firearms related deaths in the United States for the previous two years: 2015-13,492 2016-15,084

Found at Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Automobile related deaths in the United States, same time period: 2015-35,092 2016-40,200

Anti-gun advocates have claimed that firearms are too complicated for human beings to safely operate. Mechanically, guns are quite a bit simpler than cars. Elon Musk agrees with me that cars are too dangerous for human beings!

so why aren't we banning cars? Why do we allow these horrible weapons in our cities, to be used by the criminal and the inept? Why do we blindly accept Car Death? Why are automobiles, which are dramatically more dangerous than guns, so much a part of American culture? Why is it ok for someone with multiple DUI convictions to buy another death machine from the dealer down the street, with no background check, no monitoring, absolutely NO legal limitations on ownership, and very few on use, but the firearms industry is the most highly regulated in the U.S.?

Seriously, this is bugging the heck out of me. Every time I see ANOTHER article about people being killed in a terrorist attack, or a DUI crash, then hear screams about how dangerous guns are, I want to shove someone's face in the statistics. I know they wouldn't care. Cars are fun. Cars are freedom. Cars are...a right? How? Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution says "...the right of the people to keep and use automobiles shall not be infringed?" I don't recall that one from civics class.