In recent years, Texas courts have begun treating repeat, dangerous drunk drivers like murderers. One man got 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to his tenth driving while intoxicated (DWI) conviction. After making bond, he skipped town and was extradited from Illinois. Another received 35 years after conviction on his seventh DWI, while another received 40 years after his eighth DWI conviction.
“Enough is enough,” said [Williamson County] District Attorney John Bradley. “The public deserves to be protected from drunks who continue to get into cars and endanger innocent lives…”
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Let us not forget that "all murders" includes poisonings, stabbings, suffocatings, rapes, beatings, etc. AND gun murders, and it still falls short of DWI fatalities. Hmmmm....makes the Brady Campaign seem even MORE misguided.
Because drunk drivers are not a threat to state control of the individual and actually help prove a need for more control. A drunk driver cannot use his car in any efficient manner to stop the encroachment of the state on his liberty. Not at all the same degree of utility a firearm has in discouraging attacks on liberty.
Does that answer why Helmke and others who consider themselves qualified to rule us are not calling for car control? You ask, I reply.
Not to mention the fact that not all "gun violence" is evil. Guns used for self defense are good. The canard that "guns are only made to kill" is beleid by the fact that the police have them. If guns are inherently evil, then we should disarm agents of the state also.
Looks like straightarrow deserves the organically-farmed fish of his choice. (This is a politically-correct media site. No polluting cigars or endangering/predatory, dolphin-killing fishing behavior allowed.)
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