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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] OT: In Florida, shoot first, ask questions later
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:02:44 -0400

On 04/26/05 10:38 PM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
wrote:

>
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:17 PM, David Minton wrote:
>
>> Good point as well. I think we need more traffic laws. I am sure if we
>> have
>> more traffic laws, traffic related deaths will go down. How about we
>> control
>> the type of car you can drive. Some cars are obviously too dangerous,
>> like
>> ones with spoilers, or mag wheels, or red paint. Cars like that look
>> like
>> they are more likely to be in accidents, so we should probably ban
>> them.
>
> Come on, David, now you're being silly! Vehicles have to meet a
> minimum level of emissions because high levels of pollution are a
> health hazard. Vehicles have to meet a minimal level of safety because
> they would be a danger to the other vehicles. We have rules like
> driving on the same side of the street because without it
> transportation by car would be impractically dangerous.

No, I was suggesting we have more traffic laws. If more gun control laws
should reduce gun crime, more traffic laws should reduce traffic fatalities.

The last part was a jab at the now sunset AWB.

David





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