Guns and Cars -- Only Slight OT
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Tanting&RavingAgain
12-19-05:

After riding my FujiFix yesterday (I gotta get soem 'cross tires for it -- winter IS here) I was tired. Went to sleep and dreamed good dreams cause I read some old detective thriller. In my dreams I was Mike Hammer chasing down gangsters.

Woke up to reality and had to go to work! As I ate my breakfast some slob on NBC's morning show was talking 'bout the need for new gun laws after a recent series of shootings. Some crooks took shots at cops. I won't repeat the details as it was in alla da papers. Well here's this guy on the tube saying they need to regulate guns like they do cars...
...Wonderful, that's all we need. Anyone who rides a bike'd know the idiocy of that idea. After seeing the lunatics, morons and careless fools who drive the streets -- and ona bicycle you see loads of 'em -- I you bet yer gramma's pushup bra you won't want guns regulated like cars.

Every idiot and his brother would own a gun then. They wouldn't need a license to buy own, someone else could buy it and transfer it to another person's name, no one would need a license to operate one on their own property...

I would much prefer that cars be regulated like guns, not the other way around. Require background checks just to buy them. No more parents buying cars for their kids. Strict limits on the type of vehicles or their capacity (the equivolent of those silly assault gun bans), fingerprint car buyers... it'd make the streets safer.

Our society takes idiots who could never pass the already strict regulations for guns and sets them loose on the streets in dangerous cars. Take back the streets. Regulate cars like guns. It'd be no skin off their @ss for honest drivers, but illegal aliens, stolen car punks, and illegal street racers would think twice, as would geriatric geezers who are just not physically fit enough any longer to control their cars. Yesterday i was almost hit by this old guy driving 20 mph in a 45 zone, in both lanes! You wouldn't let someone legally blind get a shooting license -- why let them drive?

The idiot on the tube finished his spiel by saying he wanted people to brign their guns in for registration like you would a car.

Fine. Great. I'd love to see it happen. You think gangsters and hoodlums are going to tote their nines down to the police stationhouse to renew their nonexistant registration? Criminals by definition break laws! In the meantime we have a boatload of people driving around in unregistered cars, most of them without licenses. Like 10 or 11 million estimated (get a kick outa that phrase -- what'd they, take a poll?) illegal aliens who drive illegally.

Regulate cars like guns. If you can get people to obey the driving laws, maybe then you'll actually be able to convince people you can make the shooting laws stick. But I doubt it.

-Elvis