What is the anti-MADD quick-and-dirty smackdown?
As some of you know, I'm reading stuff that brings me into contact with MADD members. I get stuck when they say "Rights? My son is dead! Where are HIS rights?!?"
Well, unfortunately, he doesn't have any because he's dead. While true, that's a little bit in-your-face for me, and observers, if any, tend to think I "don't care". The fact is that I care about different things in a different way than they do.
But what can be said to that? Somehow, "taking away other boys' rights will do nothing for your son" leaves you open to the roadside sobriety checks and everything that can go with them aren't taking away anybody's rights!!!
Well, um, yes they are.
No they're not.
You see where I'm going here.
I'd like something snappy that will stop them in their stilettos.
All assistance appreciated.
Well, unfortunately, he doesn't have any because he's dead. While true, that's a little bit in-your-face for me, and observers, if any, tend to think I "don't care". The fact is that I care about different things in a different way than they do.
But what can be said to that? Somehow, "taking away other boys' rights will do nothing for your son" leaves you open to the roadside sobriety checks and everything that can go with them aren't taking away anybody's rights!!!
Well, um, yes they are.
No they're not.
You see where I'm going here.
I'd like something snappy that will stop them in their stilettos.
All assistance appreciated.
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Yes, some egregious authorities may use that as a pretext. That does not change the premise.
The "Terry Stop" is when the police stop a known felon for a pat-down. Felons are not allowed to carry firearms. Now, some over-zealous law enforcement person might get it in their head to stop all automobiles and search for firearms. That would be wrong. The "Terry Stop" would still be right.
So, too, is it within the proper powers of the agency that is responsible for safe roads to ensure that all drivers are competent to be safe.
In the summer months and on holiday weekends, we always find ourselves in "sobriety checkpoints" leaving our own home and stuck with all the drunk white-trash boaters, etc. Its pretty darn irritating... Fortunately the unincorporated city/neighborhood we live in is fighting back to the county and doing our best to just get rid of the events & whatever that are held at the lake to diminish the crowds hanging out here on labor day or whatever. We have very few businesses here, and only to support the residents. There is no upside, and no desire to have anything to do with any of it.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
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Experts also recommend it for "tiki cocktails" but I can't comment from experience.
Cheers!
(Hopefully this posting shows how much respect I have for MADDness.)
Or, "So, you also want to make hammers illegal as well? Because the willful actions of people using hammers have caused deaths as well."
People are responsible for their actions, whether that is using a hammer or consuming alcohol. Likewise, guns don't kill people, people kill people (sometimes using guns).
'Anytime you have to lie and exaggerate to expound your ideas in order to deny me my natural, and what's called Constitutional, Rights based on imagined effects that haven't happened yet--you've become a nuisance and a pontificating pest.'
If I ever harm or cause the death of another through my inappropriate actions, I'll be glad to face a jury of my peers and deal with the punishment imposed, but only after--not before. And by the way, Prohibition was repealed 80some years ago.