"Well Regulated Militia"

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(08-06-2019, 03:31 PM)GMDino Wrote: Can you (universal) imagine how many MORE vehicular deaths we would have in the country if we treated it like gun violence and said there's nothing we can do?  Or death from illnesses.  Or suicides.  Or any of the other red herrings presented to say (in so many words) "shootings aren't THAT bad because there are fewer of them than some OTHER way to die".

Except we do treat it like gun violence, or worse.

Literally just getting something like 30 out of 40 simple questions right, passing an easy eye test, and paying $24-ish dollars gets a 15.6-year-old with ZERO experience driving a temporary license to drive around 70 miles per hour in a 4,000lb death machine as long as they have someone 18+ in the passenger seat. It takes maybe 1 hour to get depending on how slow or crowded your BMV is.

Then 16-year-olds with cellphones are given full rights to drive around the 4,000lb death machine at 70mph with no supervision as long as they can drive around a small neighborhood without ignoring stop signs and maneuver between 4 cones.

The gun equivalent of that would be something like a 15.6-year-old being able to answer some gun safety questions (and not get TOO many of them wrong) to buy a gun, and a 16-year-old showing they know which way to point the barrel and perform a reload without pointing the barrel at yourself before getting a concealed carry permit.

A vehicle proven to be capable of killing 86 and injuring 458 in a single attack.

You can get a student pilot license at 16 to fly solo, and don't even need a student pilot license in order to receive flying lessons.

It's just a threat that we have all deemed is acceptable and okay... Not even getting into driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and how many people with multiple DUIs still have licenses and are driving around.


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Heck, in Ohio you can't even be pulled over for texting and driving, and if they pull you over for another reason and you were also texting and driving, it is just a $150 fine. If you are literally visible to police doing something that can endanger everyone's lives around you, they still can't pull you over unless you do something else wrong.