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"..I bet there are more 16 wheelers on the road than SUVs and I can assure you if they run over you, you are dead meat...."

18-wheelers are indeed dangerous. They serve, however, a very important purpose: transporting vital goods and otherwise promoting efficient commerce. Moreover, they are generally driven by trained professionals who assume a very high civil and criminal liability with respect to the way they control their vehicles.

I would venture to guess that 80% of SUV owners in my neck of the woods (Central Ohio) have no compelling reason to own a two ton sledge of an SUV. And, I can assure you that a meaningful percentage of those owners are not on their best days as safe behind the wheel as the average truck driver after a couple of six packs.

I have never said that people should be prohibited from buying SUVs. I would suggest, however, that they are inherently more dangerous than serviceable alternatives and that most people who buy them (at least in my 'hood where we have two moderately annoying snow storms per winter) have no compelling reason to do so.

[ExSoldier]

"have no compelling reason to do so."

You used this phrase twice. People like you scare me. People like you are chipping away at the civil liberties those boys are bleeding in the sand to protect....and for which many of my buddies have already given their lives. People like you will be the willing population for the rise of the New World Order in it's final form.

I live in Miami, Florida....where we get no snow except that which "blows" at times from Columbia. But when those tropical rains flood our streets...the SUV's are the only thing that gets through...which is why HUMMER H2 is fast becoming the KING of south Florida roads once ruled by Suburban.

My old Ford Explorer 4x4 (before I fell victim to the minivan for large dog transport--trust me as soon as I can afford it I'll be in H2!) used to take us to a North Carolina vacation every Christmas. In all those years I only used 4x4 twice...and each time it could have been life or death without it.

People like you ask me why I need so many handguns or an assault rifle...when there is "no compelling reason to own more than one. Or ZERO in the case of an AR-15" People like you make the Founding Fathers cringe in their graves.

People like you elected Bill Clinton and then kept him in power. Tell me....did you graduate from a public high school? It shows. You are a perfect example of the brainwashing AGENDA of the liberals at work. I know...I've been a public school teacher here in Miami for 15 years and have fought the "agenda" and it's revisionist thinking for all of that period.