An Oldie But A Goodie

[tt11758]

I realize that this originally aired a few years ago, but it's still a good piece.

[fightingquaker13]

Simple idiocy is behind this. Pass a law, and people wil obey it. Gun control=no gun crimes. Prohibition=no drugs, booze or tobacco. Anti-choice laws and no sex ed=no premarital sex. You're trying to legislate against human nature. You will lose every time. Those who trust the state, on the left or right, to be able to transform us will be doomed to dissapointment every time. I do not understand why they haven't learned this by now.
FQ13

[tt11758]

Simple idiocy is behind this. Pass a law, and people wil obey it. Gun control=no gun crimes. Prohibition=no drugs, booze or tobacco. Anti-choice laws and no sex ed=no premarital sex. You're trying to legislate against human nature. You will lose every time. Those who trust the state, on the left or right, to be able to transform us will be doomed to dissapointment every time. I do not understand why they haven't learned this by now.
FQ13

I think P.T. Barnum put it best when he said, "There's a sucker born every minute."

[Solus]

That kind of thinking is like trying to solve a problem with teenagers speeding at 60mph in a 35mph zone by lowering the speed limit to 25mph.

[MikeBjerum]

That kind of thinking is like trying to solve a problem with teenagers speeding at 60mph in a 35mph zone by lowering the speed limit to 25mph.

Or you do like Minnesota:  Spead limit is 55 mph, and too many people are speeding - So we raise the speed limit to 60 mph!

[Sponsor]

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

There was an article on the news last night that said some of our legislatures are trying to raise the highway speed up to 85 mph. I-10 in west Texas is already up to 80 mph in a 400 mile stretch between Kerrville and El Paso.

[fightingquaker13]

There was an article on the news last night that said some of our legislatures are trying to raise the highway speed up to 85 mph. I-10 in west Texas is already up to 80 mph in a 400 mile stretch between Kerrville and El Paso.

Real life cops, set their own speed limit. If its 65, it means 70, 70=80 etc. Whether this policy is official or not holds true. Is the speed limit arbitraruy, or is it a judgement call? Some place 25mph is there for a reason, others, its uneccessary. LEOS, if not constrained by "zero tolerance" can figure it out. So can drivers. I speak from the perspective of someone who works for defense lawyers from time to time. I bet the cops on the board will back me though. The point when they turn on the bluelight has a lot to do with safety.
FQ13 who never speeds because I learned that I don't need to be anywhere $200 bad.