re: #593 Targetpractice

“Cars kill more people than guns, let’s ban cars!”

I agree with sentiment expressed yesterday that nobody is proposing we ban cars, but they also aren’t proposing we do away with stop signs and signal lights.

I wonder why the NRA doesn’t also propose doing away with vehicle licensing, registration, pre-licensing driving tests, mandatory liability insurance, different types of requirements for different types of vehicles (e.g., 18-wheeler vs. motorcycle vs. passenger car), annual safety inspections…

And how about all the various ways you can fuck up and have your license removed? Driving drunk is a big one, but so is shirking your insurance responsibility. It’s also frowned upon to drive around at 100MPH in a truck with no brakes and no turn signals.

We all live this way without feeling like we’re living in a totalitarian hellhole**. It’s just stuff you have to do if you want a car. Some people don’t want the hassle, and have found ways to live without cars. But apparently it’s preferable to soak your balls in lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” rather than even *consider* POSSIBLY adapting some of those concepts to firearms.

** unless we’re crazy, or we’re Alex Jones, in which case teh sheeple better wake up and see the prison bars all around them or something.