"By buying an SUV you double the crash risk of everyone else on the road."
By choosing to buy a motorized skate board, you choose to double the risks of your driving. You have no right to demand that everyone else adopt your risk preferences.
"If you cannot see past or through another vehicle, the amount of information with which you have to anticipate its movements drops dramatically."
If you cannot see past or through another vehicle, you should change your driving habits and not follow so closely.
"Lastly, the freedom argument is pure arrogance at best. Your freedom to buy an unreasonably large vehicle comes at the cost of my freedom to travel in reasonable safety. I regard this as a theft of my liberty."
Reminds me of the arguments made by those who advocate gun control. They maintain that my desire for a firearm only results in an unreasonable cost of their freedom to live without fear of firearms. They also regard this as a 'theft of their liberty.'
It truely amazes me when conservatives adopt liberal logic and arguments to restrict the freedom of their fellow Americans.
I don't think I've made any of those arguments.
I've just said that I despise people who can't operate their vehicles properly.
And I'll say it again.
Remember though, these aren't conservatives. They're Republicans. Big difference. I have a full size Dodge truck and a Harley, so I can honestly say I see both views from the road. I don't like SUVs just because it's not my style. Never have seen a SUV that I would want to drive. But I'm also not going to tell someone what they should drive out of concerns of 'safety' either. If you've got a gaggle of kids or need a vehicle for transporting something you don't want to get wet, I guess a SUV is definitely the way to go. And it should be a person's right to go buy one instead of a group of nannies telling us what we should drive