Time to ban cars?

[poke2001]

just like in our Stillwater incident, if this bitch would have taken a gun to Las Vegas blvd and shot 35 people, Obama would have knocked babies out of the way to get to a podium to bash guns, but we will hear nothing from the POS.

Cars are even easier to obtain than guns.

 

[Medic007]

Definitely time for universal background checks for vehicle purchases.

 

[twiza]

Once people who attempt mass killings with items not designed for killing then maybe he will spend more time talking about mental illness.

 

[anon_xl72qcu5isp39]

Cars and driving are dangerous, so we should definitely have like, mandatory licensure for those car drivers to make sure they're competent. Maybe register the cars, too...

And cars aren't easier to obtain than guns. From price, to getting them tagged, to getting licensed, to mandatory insurance, they're more difficult and burdensome all the way around.

 

[Medic007]

Cars and driving are dangerous, so we should definitely have like, mandatory licensure for those car drivers to make sure they're competent. Maybe register the cars, too...

And cars aren't easier to obtain than guns. From price, to getting them tagged, to getting licensed, to mandatory insurance, they're more difficult and burdensome all the way around.

So you're saying that cars aren't the problem.

 

[Medic007]

Cars and driving are dangerous, so we should definitely have like, mandatory licensure for those car drivers to make sure they're competent. Maybe register the cars, too...

And cars aren't easier to obtain than guns. From price, to getting them tagged, to getting licensed, to mandatory insurance, they're more difficult and burdensome all the way around.

If I steal your car and kill some folks during a joy ride should you be liable? Should GM be responsible for the act of violence that lady committed on the Strip using their 1996 Oldsmobile? Should the person that sold her the car bear responsibility? How about the person that sold her the gas or the tires?

These are all ridiculous proposals that you lefties have put out there regarding guns.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

This is actually a good discussion..........so far.

 

[poke2001]

If I steal your car and kill some folks during a joy ride should you be liable? Should GM be responsible for the act of violence that lady committed on the Strip using their 1996 Oldsmobile? Should the person that sold her the car bear responsibility? How about the person that sold her the gas or the tires?

These are all ridiculous proposals that you lefties have put out there regarding guns.

I knew sys would go right to license and registration. Good counter here.

Also, I never had to get a background check when I bought a car, but I did when buying a gun. You also here of far more cars stolen every day then you do guns, so access to cars is far greater, and when you steal them, they are cheap.

Also @syskatine do you deny that Obama would have been at the podium today if this lady would have taken a gun on the strip and shot just as many people?

 

[MegaPoke]

Time for some common sense car laws.

Maybe we should ban automatic transmissions and high capacity fuel tanks.

Close the private seller loophole to make it harder for terrorists to buy cars.

 

[JonnyVito]

Obama wouldn't have talked about for at least 2 weeks. He is to busy putting his carbon foot print on Hawaii right now.

This is what I was talking about the other day on my facebook. The problem isn't guns it is people. Until you find a way to help these people with mental problems you won't solve mass killings. Then again only one person died so the other side will say guns kill more people but lets leave out the 6 people with major head injuries who will never be the same. This stuff is what scares the crap out of me.

 

[MegaPoke]

We need to close the used car loophole. As it stands, any loser with bad credit can get a used car and use it to kill her betters.

Time to take away high horsepower cars too.

 

[Medic007]

We need to close the used car loophole. As it stands, any loser with bad credit can get a used car and use it to kill her betters.

Time to take away high horsepower cars too.

Beat me to it.

Need to limit the capacity of vehicles. 8 people can't be killed in a single vehicle at the hands of a loser if 8 people can't physically fit in the car.

Limit horsepower. There is no reason to have more than 140 hp in a car.

Also limit vehicle size. There is no reason for any vehicle to be larger than a Nissan Sentra. The extra size only causes extra risk.

And eliminate pickups. They're large in size and any hauling of stuff people need can be done by professionals with CDLs.

 

[poke2001]

How can this country allow someone to sell these killing machines without providing a background check. Whoever sold this chick the car should be held responsible. If it weren't for these millions of deadly weapons out there we could all live a happy life.

 

[JimmyBob]

Damn, a group on a roll; priceless!

Let the record show I'm fully compliant with your proposed regulations: '86 944, 4 cyl., comfortably seats 2, no air bags/XM/GPS (those can kill too), and the seats recline far enough to screw if you're at peak agility (last century). Oops, better ban screwing in autos to appease the gerbils.

 

[Medic007]

Oops, better ban screwing in autos to appease the gerbils.

But only for heterosexuals. Somebody would probably be offended if homosexuals were banned from car sex.

Probably ought to set up some safe zones for those who feel threatened by certain exhaust sounds as well.

This is progress.

 

[JimmyBob]

But only for heterosexuals. Somebody would probably be offended if homosexuals were banned from car sex.

Probably ought to set up some safe zones for those who feel threatened by certain exhaust sounds as well.

This is progress.

Exhaust-free zones for the micro-(insert whatTF here) designated (insert whatTF here). There isn't a tent large enough to cover this circus.

 

[MegaPoke]

@syskatine whst can you tell me about "household" car deaths?

Accidental deaths - 30,000 (compared to 500-1000 by gun)

Suicides - 20,000 (same as guns)

Source - DailyKos

Gosh. Take out those 20,000 gun suicides and household gun deaths are about as likely as Benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Dork.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

Solid. Please continue.

 

[Medic007]

Definitely need limits on vehicle capacity.

Also need to adjust the universal speed limit to 10 mph. It's difficult for a bunch of people driving 10 mph to kill each other. Somebody driving 20 mph, obviously breaking the law, won't pose much of a threat either. I really doubt the founders of this country imagined that people would be riding around 8 deep in speeding death traps when all they had were horses.

Common sense car reforms would save many lives.

 

[Ostatedchi]

Keys should have locks on them or be kept in locked safes. If you can't regulate cars, at the very least regulate the keys. And just because you are licensed to drive in one state doesn't give you the right to drive in another.

Think of the children. If even one death can be prevented... Isn't that a good thing? Why do people who oppose these common sense reforms hate children?

 

[imprimis]

We need to close the used car loophole. As it stands, any loser with bad credit can get a used car and use it to kill her betters.

Time to take away high horsepower cars too.

But, but, but...any loser can rent any auto they want and do the same carnage.

I'm going into the gun rental business. Driver's license and insurance and the gun is yours for the next 24 hours. Special rates for weekends.

 

[wyomingosualum]

What about the automatic transmissions found in these assault automobiles? Do we really need all those gears that shift so quickly? Can't we all agree that a three speed manual transmission would save even more children?

 

[wyomingosualum]

...And those silencers that are commonly installed on the tailpipes of these assault vehicles. Completely unnecessary. Somebody do something!

 

[Ostatedchi]

assault vehicles

I just spit coffee. Damn, I LOL'd.

 

[imprimis]

What about the automatic transmissions found in these assault automobiles? Do we really need all those gears that shift so quickly? Can't we all agree that a three speed manual transmission would save even more children?

It certainly would reduce the cell phone/texting ability.

 

[poke2001]

Hybrids and all electrics should be immediately banned. Innocent people can't here them coming and are far more likely to be filled by car violence.

 

[Medic007]

Keys should have locks on them or be kept in locked safes. If you can't regulate cars, at the very least regulate the keys. And just because you are licensed to drive in one state doesn't give you the right to drive in another.

I like your proposal but it doesn't go far enough to make sure that some loser hell bent on taking your car and driving it into a crowd can't do so. That's why I propose that you must use a steering wheel lock device (like the Club) and a wheel boot on your car whenever it is parked and not in your direct control. This includes when your car is parked in your garage.

 

[mseabolt]

You can take my truck when you pry the steering wheel from my cold dead hands

 

[Medic007]

Despite all of these wonderful common sense things to reduce car violence, we also need to make sure that even if all of the measures designed to keep your car out of the hands of losers fail, your car can't be used by anybody but you. It should be required that biometric locks are installed on all steering wheels so that your car can only be operated by you.

 

[Bitter Creek]

just like in our Stillwater incident, if this bitch would have taken a gun to Las Vegas blvd and shot 35 people, Obama would have knocked babies out of the way to get to a podium to bash guns, but we will hear nothing from the POS.

Cars are even easier to obtain than guns.

Statistics prove that in countries where cars are banned, there are no fatal car accidents.

 

[JonnyVito]

You know another thing to keep in mind with this incident is was the women insured? If so I bet it was a state minimum like around 25,000/50,000 so with the injuries reported if she was insured that was gone almost with the first person hit I would say. There are 6 people in the hospital with major head traumas so who gets to pay their bill? I personally think the state minimums are way to low.

 

[MegaPoke]

Statistics prove that in countries where cars are banned, there are no fatal car accidents.

If you outlaw cars, only outlaws will have cars.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

HOF

 

[TPOKE]

So you're saying that cars aren't the problem.

This is response is gold. Eventually they paint themselves into a corner.

 

[MegaPoke]

@syskatine where you at?

 

[anon_xl72qcu5isp39]

1. I'll address this later mega -- Liberals actually work unlike many of you, apparently.

2. I can't believe you think the car comparison is so clever. Mandatory licensure, insurance, safety inspections, and you think that's a good parallel? You just made an argument for gun control.

3. We HAVE addressed traffic fatalities... with laws. Seatbelt laws, everything in (2), lawsuits.... theu've all reduced traffic fatalities. Is that good or bad?

 

[Breastman]

Dear God.....it's a good ol Okie, right-wing circle-jerk in here.

 

[JonnyVito]

1. I'll address this later mega -- Liberals actually work unlike many of you, apparently.

2. I can't believe you think the car comparison is so clever. Mandatory licensure, insurance, safety inspections, and you think that's a good parallel? You just made an argument for gun control.

3. We HAVE addressed traffic fatalities... with laws. Seatbelt laws, everything in (2), lawsuits.... theu've all reduced traffic fatalities. Is that good or bad?

1. Are you going to address it later or now like you did. So do you really work or is that a lie like your hero Hillary and Obama?

2. To buy a gun you have to have a background check done. To carry a loaded firearm you have to pass more background checks and take an 8 hour class followed by a range test. Then you get a state issued license. Others wise you leave your guns at home. So in a way they do kinda relate but that doesn't fit the agenda you promote.

3. These laws aren't good enough people still die. We should lower speed limits and raise state minimum insurance requirements so they can actually pay for a persons vehicle and medical bills.

 

[windriverrange]

One of the best threads every...some of you guys are clever mammals and your ability to parody this is historic! Carry on.

 

[poke2001]

1. I'll address this later mega -- Liberals actually work unlike many of you, apparently.

2. I can't believe you think the car comparison is so clever. Mandatory licensure, insurance, safety inspections, and you think that's a good parallel? You just made an argument for gun control.

3. We HAVE addressed traffic fatalities... with laws. Seatbelt laws, everything in (2), lawsuits.... theu've all reduced traffic fatalities. Is that good or bad?

The federal government doesn't require drivers licenses.