Yep , Cross Country, tennis are cancelled this season .
State issue, not a federal one.
As did I, although driving drunk was never allowed. It you were swerving or speeding and the Police observed this, you were pulled over, and then people went to the drunk tank.
But gone are the days where the adults were drinking beer from an ice chest while driving on a trip with a load of kids in the back of the van with no seat belts. God forbid, how did we all survive?
Nixon did the 55 mph speed limit not as a federal law, but as a condition for states to receive their own revenues back from the federal fuels tax--just to avoid the question of whether it's Constitutional for the federal government to even address such an issue coming up and taking his little speed limit to the Supreme Court.
Guess Obama's a little more reckless than that. Still comes down to the same thing, though--how is talking on a cell phone while driving in the middle of Nebraska just as dangerous as talking on one while driving in Manhattan?
Well, we didn't all survive.
Let that be a lesson to you: Behave, be careful and be good or the liberals will use you as an excuse to strip our posterity of their liberty.
And is the loss of three or four complete morons a good enough reason for tyranny? Ah, if only you could get the voters to ask that question at the time the law is being debated...
Where's the bill that removes this capability ?
Add, I would petition for vehicular assault charges to be filed.Quote:
I would sue for damages, and if clearly negligent, punitive damages.
Without violence or theft there is no crime.
This is the meaning of liberty.
Zippy, your phrase "by a drunk driver" says it all. Contrary to what you may believe, it isn't the word "drunk" in that phrase which is most important, it is the word "by".
When I am injured BY someone; anyone, THEN a crime has been committed.
It doesn't matter if you follow the word by with "cell phone user" "drunk" "fat person" "woman" "black" "hispanic" "white supremacist"
BY is the crime.
One person has violated another's liberty. I don't care what GROUP that person belongs to. I care about individual actors.
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Well, Lahood just banned handheld cell phone use in big trucks. I guess the rest of the motoring public is next. I'm just waiting till 4 wheelers have to fill out log books. Maybe that would wake people up...
I keep trying to tell 'em that all this stuff falls on the political "minorities" first, those small, last holdouts of independent living, that are easily squashed.
Truckers, pilots, seamen, ranchers, family farmers, hell, the feds have been treating commercial fishermen like lab rats for 30 years now.