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Old 10-03-2017, 11:47 AM
 
Location: in my imagination
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"We aren't going to take your car away", you just need to compromise for the sake of a civilized society and give up your car that goes faster than 85 mph, you don't need that unless you are looking to outrun the cops so it that case there should be a watch list for people owning high performance cars.
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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s'pose I need to get around somebody already doing 85?
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:51 AM
 
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"We aren't going to take your car away", you just need to compromise for the sake of a civilized society and give up your car that goes faster than 85 mph, you don't need that unless you are looking to outrun the cops so it that case there should be a watch list for people owning high performance cars.
But what if I want to go hunting? Shouldn't I be able to own a higher performance car for that? Maybe one that holds a lot of extra gas?
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:52 AM
 
Location: London
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"We aren't going to take your car away", you just need to compromise for the sake of a civilized society and give up your car that goes faster than 85 mph, you don't need that unless you are looking to outrun the cops so it that case there should be a watch list for people owning high performance cars.
I guess in your fantasy "kingdom", people would also wind up on a list for disagreeing with you. After all, they might put that defiance to use one day.
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:56 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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America and their car fetish, the highest speed limit in the U.S.A is 85 mph you don't need a car that goes faster than that all cars should have a regulator limiting the speed or be banned. Those looking to increase their cars performance and horsepower should be looked at by the government they obviously are a potential menace on the road.

That goes for motorcycles also.....
Why are you a communist? Why are you against personal freedom?
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:57 AM
 
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cars are intended for travel. human deaths are 99.99999999999% accidental.

Guns are intended to kill ....... human deaths are almost all on purpose.


THREAD FAIL.
The point you are missing is that if we capped all car speeds to 30mph we'd save tens of thousands of lives annually.

Another would be to make breath testers MANDATORY in all cars to reduce drunk driving which would also save many thousands of lives annually.

See, you can still have your car we're just going to put some "reasonable restrictions" on them to prevent deaths.

Accidental or Intentional they're still preventable deaths.
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Old 10-03-2017, 11:59 AM
 
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Why are you a communist? Why are you against personal freedom?
Think about the children!
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Old 10-03-2017, 12:00 PM
 
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The point you are missing is that if we capped all car speeds to 30mph we'd save tens of thousands of lives annually.

Another would be to make breath testers MANDATORY in all cars to reduce drunk driving which would also save many thousands of lives annually.

See, you can still have your car we're just going to put some "reasonable restrictions" on them to prevent deaths.

Accidental or Intentional they're still preventable deaths.
That's what we needed, some math interjected into it!

However, I believe there would still be some deaths, somewhere, at some point, even at 30 mph (if nothing else, from road rage). Since most humans can walk at 3 mph, I strongly recommend setting the car's governor at 3 mph. Everyone wanting a nanny-state government should be in the passenger seat with me on this (no pun intended).
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Old 10-03-2017, 12:02 PM
 
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America and their car fetish, the highest speed limit in the U.S.A is 85 mph you don't need a car that goes faster than that all cars should have a regulator limiting the speed or be banned. Those looking to increase their cars performance and horsepower should be looked at by the government they obviously are a potential menace on the road.

That goes for motorcycles also.....
is that your solution to every problem? more government? more nanny state government? if you are that worried about things, how about instead you find a big hole in the ground somewhere, build your living space there, and wrap yourself in bubble wrap.
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Old 10-03-2017, 12:02 PM
 
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America and their car fetish, the highest speed limit in the U.S.A is 85 mph you don't need a car that goes faster than that all cars should have a regulator limiting the speed or be banned. Those looking to increase their cars performance and horsepower should be looked at by the government they obviously are a potential menace on the road.

That goes for motorcycles also.....

What kind of car do you drive?
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