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To: thoughtomator

I drive a Ford Crown Vic. It's my third in a row and I'll be getting another. Unlike you, this issue is not personal to me.

Anti-SUV drivers are normally not adequately competent to handle the modern highway, and need a scapegoat for their inadequacies. The road was filled with line-of-sight-blocking vehicles long before the tinted SUV came along. The "morally suspect" SUV has not changed that.

People need to grow up and adapt to road conditions. The phrase "proven by experience" is completely nonsensical: anecdotal evidence is not proof.

The crybaby attitude of the anti-SUV crowd is beneath adult behavior. Grow up.


405 posted on 05/09/2005 9:53:13 PM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: Petronski

Other types of view-blocking vehicles were subject to restrictions - places they could not go, lanes they could not use - to which SUVs are not. 18-wheelers don't crowd the grocery parking lot.

Professional truck drivers are the best drivers on the road, that's why there's no problem with them. They know what kind of vehicle they have and handle it appropriately. SUV drivers are the worst, because the precise opposite is true.

I know someone who felt he was forced (some freedom!) to buy a SUV just to be able to see adequately on the roads. Is forcing everyone to buy a SUV any less of a restriction on liberty than prohibiting people from doing so? Anecdotal or not, these anectdotes span enough years and enough places to be statictics.

The arrogance of the SUV crowd is as juvenile as the playground bully. Just like we don't let the folks with the biggest guns force everyone else to do what they want, nor is it right to let those with the biggest vehicles impose their will by force on others. At some point we start shooting back. Resort to government is the last step before resorting to force.


406 posted on 05/09/2005 10:03:00 PM PDT by thoughtomator ("One cannot say that a law is right simply because it is a law.")
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