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Conflict of Interest 3172

Alex Rodriguez

Conflict of Interest 3174
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. Actually, there's a very *good* reason shown by the large gap between posted and actual speeds: Most people get...

Who's going to pay for it? You'd have to be retested to meet such a higher requirement and pay too. And many drivers might not be able to meet such a requiement at all due to age or infirmity. Throwing 'em off the road sounds easy until likely and perhaps unintended consequences are considered, right down to used car sales.

"Safely" does not equal no harm. I'm a pretty good shot. I think I can shoot 1000 rounds at you, come within 6 inches every time and never hit you. If I accomplish that... succeed 1,000,000 times or 10M times or 100M times... does letting me try fit your definition of a safe practice? The "standard" of gun safety includes never pointing a gun at a person you don't intend to kill... EVER! Not even the unloaded firearm. And we all know why. More people are end accidentally with unloaded firearms than loaded ones.

Conflict of Interest 3173
Obviously the person who wants to get licensed pays for it. Not a problem. I'll save a lot of time and money by getting poor drivers off the road. It's an...

Simple- agreed. Cite where it works, please....

Why should it be recent? And your other criteria has no point either.

Building codes, for example. Insider trading laws, commercial pilot licensing, laws concerning pedestrians having the right-of-way, there's hardly an end... it's a constant function of the government to create new law. Law is created to protect, not punish. The idea is... to have the law obeyed, strange as that may seem and ideally, never have to punish anyone. -----

- gpsman




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