[QUOTE=ghrocketman]Betcha you can guess how I feel about all 'drunk driving' laws too./QUOTE]

I'm confused. Are you proposing that we, as a civilized society, should eliminate the current prohibitions on drunken driving?

I used to have a co-worker that had similar opinions as gh.

His belief was that in his "right" for "pursuit of happiness", he should be allowed to do what ever he desired. There should be no rules that would prevent him from driving down a residential street at 80mph, drunk, and shooting a gun out the window - so long as he didn't hurt someone. No harm = no foul.
He did agree that if he accidentally hit someone in their house with a bullet flying through their wall, or broadside a minivan full of nuns and orphans, that he should be prosecuted for causing the harm. But until he actually hurt someone there should be no restrictions on his actions.

When asked about the safety of others, he felt it was their responsibility to decide if they want to drive or make their house bullet proof if they are concerned.

Personally, this is too radical for me.
But I do agree in many ways they are trying to make a "nanny-state" and too many laws have been implemented "for our own good".
The issue is where I believe the line should be drawn will be different for each person.
What I believe is absurd others will say we need. Whereas areas I feel need some "oversight" others will feel is going too far or unnecessary.
And gh and my co-worker will believe almost any rule is going too far......

And just a quick example that should be near and dear to many of us here....

How many people have bemoaned the loss of using a school yard or park as a flying field because the "powers that be" have deemed it too hazardous and banned the flying of rockets, despite the very high safety record we have.
More kids are injured playing soccer, football, and even baseball on the fields than by rockets, but the sports are allowed and rockets are banned -

About time they did something useful. Have had to many texters try to kill me on my bike. Talk about criminals, inattentive drivers affect us all!

Thank you for letting me know my tax dollars are finally working!

Mike

Yes, 100% agree with the GPS, even more, the phone company should cut all texting and cell phones off once in a moving vehicle. Period! Technology is there to do this. Phone companies should be liable for any damages.

When you are driving, you need to pay attention to your surroundings.

Mike

How many posts have I read about your choice in politicans, that for sure don't promote individual freedom?

How messed up are you?

Mike

My political postings are toward restrictions on CORPORATIONS and BUSINESSES and the abuse of the 99% by the 1%.

I don't buy that "Driving is a privledge and not a right" CRAP. I WOULD like to see driving as a DEFINED RIGHT that is unrevokable, no joke.

Drunk Driving fatalities have steadily reduced per driven-mile steadily since they peaked in 1986.
We do NOT need more and more ever-restrictive BAC laws BLACK-MAIL imposed on states by the feds, no matter what the RABID members of nanny-state groups like MADD try to convince everyone. If you cause NO HARM, there should be no charge available for the traffic cops, EVER.

Yes, I do subscribe to NO HARM=NO FOUL and especially on one's own property.
You should be able to do whatever you want unless it causes a DIRECT, MEASURABLE, IRREVERSIBLE, DEFINABLE, PHYSICAL harm to another NOT involved in said activity.

Generally in my personal life I'm a quiet, unimposing neighbor to all those around me, and that is not a joke. Pi$$ me off, and that all changes very quickly.

I would even go so far to say that YES, you do have the RIGHT to do anything not specifically BANNED by the U.S. Constitution and would like to see THAT placed into the "Bill of Rights".

I would MUCH rather see the courts rule in favor of a "YEE-HAWW ! Free-For-All" than all the Nanny-State forced-safety crap we have now.

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I meant that GPS allows the phone to know it's in a moving vehicle and should turn off texting. Disabled 'by' GPS.

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The obvious exception to GH's statements is that you can't earn a boatload of money without being taxed to death. So what is the threshold of a "boatload of money"? Why anything more than GH's current income, because he doesn't earn a lot. Now that thar is fun-nee!

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What's next ?
Disabling you from changing the radio station while driving ?
No more talking to your passengers ?
No eating in the car ?
No consumption of coffee or other soft drinks ?

Up until only a few years ago one of the ONLY decent things about Texas was their LACK of laws against "open intoxicants" in a motor vehicle. The DRIVER could actually be drinking out of an open LIQUOR bottle as much as he/she wanted provided they were not legally drunk. I have ZERO problem with that AT ALL as long as one is not being a menace mowing down people or property. They got BLACKMAILED by the feds into getting rid of that FREEDOM.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !