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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Solon who wrote (41343)11/17/2005 7:30:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
But we don't let idiots drive cars, we don't let children drive cars, we don't let people drive cars if they've been drinking, we don't let people drive cars that are 100 feet long or wide--and so forth.

All of the above can own and possess and to an extent drive cars.

Cars go on public roads. Children and idiots can own cars. They can probably even legally drive them when they are on private property. I could, if I was wealthy and eccentric enough, buy a large parcel of property, build an entirely private road or track or paved field on it and have someone build a 100 foot long vehicle of me to drive on my land.

I can put a web cam on a car, too. It will just sit there. But that is irrelevant as regards the argument for regulating ownership and usage of cars.

But cars ownership isn't all that regulated. About the only thing is that the car is registered and thats primarily for tax purposes and to combat theft, rather then for safety reasons. Ownership of guns is regulated sometimes quite heavily.

Also people aren't arguing that cars are killers, that cars are so inherently dangerous that they should be banned. Even though guns kill less people, some people do make the argument that guns are so inherently dangerous that they should be banned. If people start making that argument about cars than I would welcome the car web came site.

Tim
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