Posted on 12/08/2022 9:17:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last month, a Wisconsin jury convicted Darrell Brooks of first-degree intentional homicide while using a dangerous weapon for driving an SUV into the crowd gathered at a Christmas parade last year in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He was found guilty of 70 other counts. He was sentenced to life in prison, as mandated under under Wisconsin law.
So a court of law has determined that a car or SUV is a dangerous weapon. It certainly can be, and this is not the first incident of a vehicle being used as a weapon.
Earlier this year, a German man drove a car into a group of pedestrians in Berlin. He killed at least one person and injured 14 others (five of the injured had life-threatening injuries), according to Reuters. The dead person was a teacher, and the injured were students.
Bystanders detained the man until a police officer arrived and arrested him. The driver was a 29-year-old German-Armenian man. He drove into the group as they stood on a street corner. Then he drove back onto the road and crashed into a shop a short distance away.
"The latest evidence suggests this is a case of a mentally ill person running amok," said Iris Spranger, Berlin's interior affairs minister, according to Reuters.
Earlier this month, a California man drove an SUV into a group of more than 20 young recruits with the Sheriff's Training Academy and Regional Services (STARS) in Whittier, California. The recruits were out for a morning jog. The crash critically injured five of them, with 18 others suffering minor and moderate injuries.
How long will it be before the left demands legislation limiting who can own a vehicle so this sort of thing doesn't happen in the United States?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Using the logic the left uses on gun control — that the problem is the weapon and not the person who uses the weapon — politicians should be out there trying to ban knives, hatchets, cars, and anything else that could be used to kill a person.
They aren't because even they know they can go too far.
Not that they won't try. Even now, they are trying to lower the bar to get citizens to give up even more of their rights. New York recently banned bulletproof vests, taking advantage of the fact that the Buffalo shooter who killed 10 people in a supermarket wore body armor. Of course, the law they passed wouldn't have prohibited the type of body armor that shooter wore.
All courts and states regard cars as a potentially deadly weapon. Its why they all have vehicular homicide laws (or whatever they may call it), on the books.
Now if they were serious, they would treat vehicular homicide as serious as murdering someone with a hand weapon. Often vehicular homicide sentences are a fraction of murder sentences by other tools. It really shouldn’t be for murder (ie intentional killing).
Are there any states where cars aren’t licensed and regulated? Bad argument. Just sayin’.
With Digital I.D. they will turn off your ability to purchase gasoline and put limits on how fast your car can travel.
Not new, remember Priscilla Ford.
Might be hard to look her up now since she was a member of the protected class.
A car, like a gun is an inanimate object. It only becomes a weapon when one chooses to make it a weapon.
Driving is a privilege, not a right and the state gives that privilege and can take it away as well.
“trying to ban knives, hatchets, cars, and anything else that could be used to kill a person’!
OK, but how do you ban ROCKS? The first MURDER that I am aware of is when CAIN killed ABLE, he did it with a ROCK!
in the right hands, a soda can is a lethal weapon. even a pen can be used to kill.
anyone suggesting a car needs to be controlled as a weapon is a moron.
of course, we could just accept it and tell them to STFU as they’re not allowed to INFRINGE on our ability to arm ourselves.
And here we have to agree to disagree.
Freedom of movement now requires the freedom to drive to have any practical application.
Flame suit is on.
Anything, and I mean ANYTHING can be used
to take a human life. If the desire and
willingness is there, one can be killed
with cotton balls. This article is
meaningless unless taken in the context
of those projecting the idea that cars
are evil, and must be done away with.
I’m really going to miss everything....
They don’t have to. They just keep adding regulation such that cars are more unaffordable to more people.
Look at Singapore. The Government decides who can own a car, who can live in a nice apartment, etc. Not a way we want to live.
And they are wrong. Is it a privilege to own a horse and cart or a right?
You think, with all your taxes, tags, standards, EPA sniffers,, permits, unmarked cops, hundreds of reasons to pull you over and arrest you without warrant, licensing restrictions, etc., etc., anyone OWNS their vehicle or has “rights” to drive? We have permissions and privileges, well paid-for. Compare your car to the horse, America’s primary mode of transportation only 100 years ago.
Absolutely. Not enough materials for everyone have the EVs that they’re trying to put us in. I imagine their plan is get rid of/severely limit private EVs once they get rid of ICE’s. Then y’all workin’ from “home.” Enjoy ze bugs!
A car, like a gun, is only dangerous when a nut gets loose. As the old saw goes, “the most important part of any motor vehicle is the nut that connects the steering wheel to the seat”. Obvious in this case.
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