Posted on 03/04/2002 10:49:56 AM PST by A.J.Armitage
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In fact, I do like it. You seem to have missed the key factor in checks and balances, ect. The power of the government is limited, because the government is run by people under the effects of the Fall.
Ironically, our newly minted domestic terrorism laws include among the definitions of acts of domestic terrorism "using threats of force or coercion to influence public policy".
If a ban on all handguns prevents one innocent person from being killed, I'll bring up deaths anytime gun rights are discussed!
Ok, I don't want my 16 year old to have access to alcohol. Under your law, I would have to follow him around all day to make sure he does not purchase it. It would be similar to me trying to prevent my minor child from buying a snickers bar. If he wants a snickers bar, he will get it.
Is it? I thought it was by federal coersion by withholding highway money?
A small point, since it amounts to the same thing.
You haven't, and indeed have repeatedly stated just the opposite more than once. My mistake...we're definitely in agreement on that issue.
Agreed. I trust my peers drunk in their homes more than I do sober behind the wheel.
I can only assume you read neither my post nor your own.
I no more believe that that I believe people who are 22 will just sit at home drinking, or, for that matterm that people who haven't had enough sleep will sit at home and not drive.
The fact that someone might do something risky after drinking is no argument at all. If they do, it's the driving that's the problem.
But say that you didn't want your minor child eating Snicker Bars, whose responsibility is it to prevent him from doing such?
Ok thats nice.
Control freaks are not normal people.
Agreed
They are the new, improved uber-citizens
Whatever.
Agreed. A price has to be paid when you kill somebody in this situation. This reminds me of a story...there's a guy where I live who was an assistant coach (my dad was head coach) of little league baseball...well, when he was 15 he got drunk and killed the teenage girl who was in the car with him. His license was suspended till he was 18. Then a year ago (he was about 19 or 20) he gets drunk, goes speeding headed south in the northbound side of the interstate and knocks off another person and seriously injures another. Quite a shame.
I'll waste nither breath nor wit on you henceforth.
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