I’m conservative - but this guy’s a fruitcake. I don’t want my daughter drivin’ down the road sharing the highway with God knows what imbecile who may not have any common sense [much less driving ability] ...
Do you think not having a drivers license keeps those idiots from driving?
The only real good they do is allow the cops to check quickly to see if there are any warrants out on you.
LOL, the court have already found you do have a right to travel and therefore a license. That is why all states give drunks limited usage license.
Equal Protection Clause: Illegals don’t need a license, so citizen should’t need them, either.
Also, suspending and revoking doesn’t stop the worst of the worst drivers from sharing the roads with your daughter, or anyone else. They are routinely out there everyday, killing and maiming and destroying property. Not a bit different than ‘gun control’ measures, either: the criminal ALWAYS ignores the law, by definition.
A driver’s license, like a SSN has become a defacto government ID...even though my SS card says, “For Social Security and tax purposes - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION” on the front of it. The other half, detachable “keep in a safeplace”, half is even more explicit about NOT giving your SSN to ANYONE, except your employer, tax officials, and official communications with SSA about one’s account.
Now, it they get serious about that “equal protection” thing, well maybe then citizens might be less supportive of this proposal.
Of if a Social Security Number were only use to make sure that the Social Security taxes you paid went to your account?
This guy may be a bit nutty, but living in a world where a driver's license is required to be a passenger on a plane, and a Social Security number is required to get a department store credit card can drive anyone a bit whacko!
The last time I was out on the road that's all there was out there.
They do it anyways. Twenty times convicted drunks, keep driving. Illegals drive. Old, blind, twenty pills a day elderly drive. Pot heads, heroin shooters, cell phone yackers.....
I don’t want my daughter drivin’ down the road sharing the highway with God knows what imbecile who may not have any common sense [much less driving ability].
That’s the way it is today anyway.
Basically it’s just another tax for the politicians to dig into. They could care less if you know how to drive or not.
I may or may not agree with you, but that sentiment is the source of the loss of pretty much every liberty that is taken away. (And the following is not a rant at you, it’s something I’ve been thinking about for the last couple of days, and your comment triggered a hopefully coherent gelling of that idea):
“I don’t want to walk down the street sharing the sidewalk with God knows what imbecile carrying a gun who may not have any sense”
“I don’t want to go driving down the street knowing that some 20-year-old could have been drinking and now driving”
“I don’t want to be sitting in my living room next door to some imbecile who thinks burning leaves on a windy day is a good idea, and ends up catching my house on fire”
“I don’t want to be living in a neighborhood and have some imbicile neighbor paint his house chartruese with purple shingles, lowering my property values”
“I don’t want to have my kid go to school and be confronted by some imbecile who tries to tell her that scientology is a real religion”
Well, there is a line, a place that it is rational for the government “of the people” to restrict people in the defense of others. But where is that line? Is it really driving? Is that the thing, do we believe that non-licensed drivers increase the probability of accidents by enough of a percentage to make it OK?
Should we instead go after the stupid rules that require barbers to have a license to cut hair? What’s the big danger to society there — a bad hair cut? How about lawyers? medical doctors? gun dealers? we have a lot of licencing requirements.
My daughter just got her learner’s permit. She’s almost 18, but in my state, you can’t just get a licence by taking the test until you are 19. So when she turns 18, she will still be required to only drive when a supervisor is in the car. She’ll go to college, be able to vote, but still have to wait another 2 months before she can drive on her own.
Of course, she’ll have to wait 3 more years before she can legally take a drink of alcohol. She’ll be able to join the military, be executed if she commits murder, be able to get married and have children — but the STATE believes it’s just too much of a risk to the rest of us if she has wine with her husband at their anniversary dinner.
Simple fact — our freedoms will NEVER be as great as they were on the day our country was founded. Governments, people in authority, almost NEVER grant MORE liberty. They only take it away, chipping bit by bit, always for the BEST reasons, with the BEST intentions, and mostly with the consent of the fearful governed, willing to give up freedom for security.
So no, I certainly don’t want your daughter to be killed by a driver who doesn’t know what they are doing. In that regard, there are what, 50,000 deaths and 2.5 million injuries a year with our current licensing rules. Isn’t that way too many? We should make the tests much harder, include twice-yearly driving tests which are serious, not the jokes we do now, and ban from driving anybody who has already CAUSED an accident.
And if you disagree, what are you, somebody who WANTS people to get killed on the road just so you can drive if you already had an accident? My point being — we lose our liberties because the argument to restrict something is always more intense, more emotional, and more driven by fear than any generalist argument that our liberty is slowly slipping away.
It is a rare day when the people wake up, and suddenly as one voice realise — “Hey, they took our freedom, and we want it back”. Obamacare is the closest thing we’ve had to such a “what happened” moment. But if they had done Obamacare in little pieces over 30 years, it would just be another Medicare, in other words a program that everybody simply accepted as fact, and defended against all comers.
LOL, from what I’ve seen of GA drivers I think anyone who has a pulse is given a license. Just saying...I have to drive around them everyday. In all fairness TN is the same way. So, until the state can be responsible lets just dispense w/ licensing charade. Right now its just a money machine for the state.
My daughter is one of those imbeciles