Drunk driving, etc.

[Gurm]

Ok, I'm back. Some more thoughts:

DRUNK DRIVING:

If you think it's harsh to lose your license and your car, tough. It's harsher to lose your mother or sister or best friend because some ****ole couldn't control him or herself. People are stupid. People need to understand that there are DIRE consequences to their actions. In the USA right now, I could drive drunk and get caught DOZENS of times before I was actually locked up for any serious period of time. They will NEVER confiscate my vehicle, and the penalties for driving without a license are minor. And there is no level of drunk driving that will cause you to lose your license for good. A couple years is the maximum.

They just had to deal with one guy near here (Boston) recently - he had been CONVICTED of drunk driving... get ready... 15 TIMES in the past 5 years. This time he killed 4 people, so he's doing time. If they had gotten this ****ole off the road one of the OTHER 15 times, those 4 people would be alive.

I drove "tipsy" once. I was probably blowing close to the legal limit, but I was underage. I went about a half-mile, and it scared the living CRAP out of me. NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN.

Some people can't make this realization. Those people should not be allowed to have a car. Period.

GUN CONTROL:

I am a big fan of zero-tolerance laws. If you shoot someone in cold blood you should go to jail FOREVER. There are always exceptions. I realise that. There is always the one cold-blooded murderer that will turn himself around and be reformed. But the general case shows that violent felons repeat their crimes.

I know there's no way to live in a society as free as the USA and have laws like that. But it's just how I feel the world ought to be in a perfect version.

I'm all for having guns. I haven't got one yet, because I haven't had the time to devote to the safety and training classes. I can shoot - I'm a damn good shot with a pistol actually, but I suck with rifles. But I want to be responsible, so until I have the time to invest in the training and safety classes and the proper gun locks and equipment, my home is gun-free.

Why have a gun, you ask? Protection. Deterrence. Peacekeeping. All the naysayers can talk all they want, but there is a town in Texas where the entire adult population is required to CARRY a gun AT ALL TIMES. They are all licensed and trained. And you know what? There hasn't been a violent crime in that town since the law went into effect. Not one. No domestic violence, no robbery, no rape, no murder, no nothing. And it isn't a small town.

So anyone who says arming the populace doesn't work is obviously confused.


Ok, I'm done for now.

- Gurm

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[merchant2112]

jam i agree with you, but gun locks i don't use them, (i don't have any children in my home.) i also don’t keep the guns loaded either. my smith has a clip safety as well a a decocking lever and pin lock. what’s all that well it means that a round can be safely left in the chamber and unless the clip is in the gun it can't fire a decocker drops the hammer and blocks it from hitting the firing pin. a pin lock is a small bar witch locks the firing pin in place so that it cant move (by shock and cause a round to go off.) these are called safeties and are built into the gun. that is all that is needed to stop a adult from accidentally discharging a handgun.

hum let me see officer i accidentally placed the clip in the handle i accidentally pushed a lever that requires over 20lbs of force to move it up, accidentally lifted the gun and aimed it at my (insert wife boyfriend ect.. here) and pulled the trigger.) Now a simple trigger lock will work for stopping a child from firing this gun use a keyless one like a pill bottle i would hate to look for a key while someone is in my house and i could not get out with out endangering myself or family.)

my point is this, just this morning in a local paper they were showing this "new gun alarm lock. witch evolved a metal bar going up through the magazine and looping thorough the ejection port on the hand gun (with a large block off to the side witch housed some kind of speaker. this is nice but over time would make the gun useless as the spring witch forces the slide back into place (loading ammo automatically would become damaged from being left in a compressed state all the time (the only way it could be left in order for a bar to pass though the magazine well and ejection port.) oh never mind that it looks like it would take 10 min to get the thing off and load the gun if the gun would still work that is.

i don't carry i don't even go to the range any more or hunt don't have the time. but i used to shoot competition (DCM and ISPIC) leaving a loaded gun around children is insane but having them around and not teaching them about them is too, there is no lock, key or code or both, that a kid big enough walk and smart enough to see you punch in or remember where you keep your spare keys can't get into. if they want gun they will get gun. if they want gun but know what gun is (really know what gun is and can do) they certainly are not going to pick one up and show it to there bud and blow there head off by accident because they should know that any gun should be treated as if it were loaded even if you just finished unloading it yourself. gun locks are good for stopping uneducated persons from truly accidentally hurting or killing themselves or others but not much else. because if they want gun they will get gun regardless of what you or anyone else dose. The only child safe gun is one that is a non-working gun.

hey grum, i like 0 tol laws as well but lets go once step further shall we (im serious) instead of locking a "caught dead bang, not a shred of dough, on tape holding the weapon over the body ect... type guilty person up for life with no chance of getting out, we should execute them (gas , beheading, firing squad ect.. ) why should we use taxes to house some until the end of their life. now for lesser crimes you could always go back to the old testament (eye for an eye type laws.)

personally for convicted killers this would work well. execute the killer in the same manner as he or she did the victim. think about it you would think twice about killing some one or driving drunk (if you hit and killed someone) if you know that you would be executed in the same manner if caught and convicted. (oh no appeals either no sit on death roe for 20 years while tying up the courts in Bs. remember were talking about red handed no drought you were filmed lots of people saw you do it type of guilty here. you would definite think twice about chopping someone up with an ax or running them over with a car while drunk. speaking about drunk driving i mean take away car and license then 1 year in jail then drug control only if no death's are involved. first time a death or injury is involved you get treated just like you were sober and did it on propose (you made the choice to get in the car drunk you live with the consequences.)


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[The PIT]

Theres on daft thing about Uk law. If you get drunk and sleap in the car or get caught taking something out of the car the Police can do you for being drunk in charge. This has happened to a friend of mine.
Also on the speed of cars have you noticed with modern cars driving at Seventy makes you feel like you're doing 20mph. It's very easy to wind the car up to a speed that you feel comfortable and then notice the speedo is a little higher than it should be.
However the extra power and speed is very useful when stopping isn't the option and you got to drive round the vehicle. It's also very useful getting rid of ****oles who trying to block you, tailgate for some reason flying around there pee brain.

[merchant2112]

SCompRacer, oohh national match m14, that’s a weapon worthy of col. hackworth (i think he’s either a gen. now or retired) any way. nice gun (me i like long guns my personal fav at the moment remington model 700bdl 30.06 w/ removable chamber insert for 7.62 NATO, 60mm auto ranging scope floated heavy barrel and a 4.5 lbs. trigger, (detach box mag modified 10 rounds) black glass stock. (all metal parts have been refinished (active black magic) there is no reflective parts on the rifle (not even the bolt)

my views. on drugs [ make them legal cheap and everywhere. Within 1 year drug crime will drop drastically. and illegal drug trafficking will disappear overnight.

on drunk driving, take thire car and their license the first time, get caught a second time lock them up for a year. a third time well there are cretin drugs that you can be addicted to that will make drinking impossible (if you drink even one sip you get violently ill, and if you stop taking the drug you get even more violently ill, (this program will also involve a monitored program where a convicted driver would have to report so often for administered injections.

teen driving (under 18 and even most 18year olds have maturity problems) drive badly because most "kids" don't think about what they are doing or what could happen. under 18 no license period. unless it is a requirement for medical reasons. as this is probably not a reality in our nice world where most moms and dads don't know what there kids are doing never mind care what they are doing I say if we have to give them a license make it a daylight license only and if the young driver gets in a accident that is his fault then take that license away until he/she is 18

gun control. Well some of my friends would probably be surprised if they read this seeing as I have 12 rifles and 2 pistols ,but I’m for gun control. I believe in extensive background checks, for UN licensed persons only. If you have a licensee you should not have to wait. Make all permits/licensees with photo’s. so there can be no mistakes. (in CT. the old license was a non photo one and anytime I bought a gun I was never asked to show a photo id.) background checks for licensed persons are made at the time the license is issued and every time it is renewed. Built in gun lock devises will save lives but not the ones they are meant to. They will hamper legal gun owners use of a fire arm in a defensive action (please wait mister robber rapist mugger killer while I unlock my gun ????? I don’t think so. Teach our children as early as possible that a gun is dangerous (SHOW THEM DON”T TELL THEM DON’T TOUCH THEY AREN’T SMART ENOUGH FOR THAT.) I know a kid who went shooting (at a range) all the time so his mom bought him a 22, he did not under stand that the bullet coming out of the gun could shoot though more than paper. He had never seen what a bullet looked like after it came out of the gun so he tried to catch one and shoot himself in the hand. (and he was around guns a lot. but no one ever showed him what a gun is capable of. Kids are curious if you don’t show them they will try and find out on their own.
Back to gunlocks, gun locks will be defeated by criminals. Every time. Just the idea of a criminal having a gun is illegal do you think that a criminal with a illegal firearm is going to use a legal gun lock on his stolen gun. Trigger locks can be removed with a hacksaw, jewelers saw, drills ect….) eltronic smart guns can be jammed (one I saw used a radio transmitter if you over load the bands the gun wouldn’t work for anyone. (including the officer) oh well I could go on and on this but the only real gun control is education and maybe control the ammo. Because it really isn’t the gun, a gun is a tool . it’s the nut behind the gun. But if your one of those who still want to spout guns do kill people then think a little harder. Guns don’t kill people the ammo in the guns kill people. (hollow points don’t wound they hit penetrate and expand they kill) a gun with out ammo is an expensive club.

[Pelle]

Just FYI: you don't lose your driving license forever when driving drunk in Germany. It can get pretty expensive, depending on how much you drank, and the license can be gone for a pretty long time, but to be rid of it, you have to be really drunk and even then you have a chance of getting it back after passing a psychological test.

[The PIT]

Pelle What form do those tests take? Throwing someone into the bar with a few marks and see if they can resist a drink?

[Helevitia]

Well, I got something to get off my chest.

I'll try to make it short. My best friend of 15 years is in a wheel chair and is paralyzed from the waste down because a drunk driver swerved off of the side of the road and hit him, his sister, and his girlfriend. His 9 year old brother watched the whole thing happen and my bestfriend flew thirty feet, hit someone else and slammed into a metal fence which bent the first 6 inches of the metal post at a 90 degree angle. The guy that he hit had both of his legs broken and both his sister and his girlfriend died. All of this happened when we were 14. I am now 28.
Last October, My bestfriend's brother slammed into the back of a honda with his Nissan pick-up and killed a 17 year old girl that was sitting in the back. He was so intoxicated that he hit the vehicle at 60 MPH on a street, not the highway.
My bestfriend with whom I've partied with several times over the years, quit drinking and smoking pot because of this latest incident and said "Dave, I finally realize that alcohol and drugs have ruined my family's life".
I sit here typing this, drinking a beer wondering why it takes such a tragedy such as my friends to convince people that drinking+driving are very bad. My hands are tied as I will drink beer and drive. The worst part is, I haven't even told you the whole story.

I just thought I'd share my story for others to see.

Dave

[Compton]

Another point to raise is why is almost every new car these days capable of 120+MPH?

I have an 84 Chevrolet Caprice and the speedometer only goes up to 85 but it can go much faster than 120MPH!!

[Gurm]

C'mon, the Bugatti could do close to 200Mph in the 30's.

- Gurm

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[LAMFDTK]

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UN licensed persons only? If the UN ever mandates a law that I have to follow
here in the US ..I'm going to go to WAR! Along with a whole lot of other Constitutional
Americans! I have a real tough time with the Liberal point of view concerning just
about everything! heheh Take away the guns from law abiding folks and leave the
criminals to run free! Its going on right now in the <a href="http://nraila.org/research/2http://nraila.org/research/20000302-RegistrationLicensing-001.shtml">UK</a>
and in <a href="http://nraila.org/research/20000329-BanningGuns-001.shtml">Australia</a>.
Guns for the crooks only...Its really easy to figure the whole situation out. Once
Americans are dis-armed by the NWO the Country is finished. Clintoon (delusions
of adequacy.) is working his heart out on this. His feet are standing in the blood
of murdered children and other victims in 5 mins after a horrific act is committed,
calling for new Gun laws. Go to a Gun show and see if you can just walk in and
buy a firearm. In any state...never happen. If the laws that are in place now
were ever enforced things would be a whole lot different. 2000 children took guns
into schools last year and Janet El~Reno and her monkey justice dept. (saving
me from Bill Gates) prosecuted 3....Check it out... Thank god for the <a href="http://nraila.org/research/19990729-BillofRightsCivilRights-005.html">Right
to Bear ARMS!</a> Its the <a href="http://nraila.org/research/19990729-BillofRightsCivilRights-004.html">2nd
Ammendendment</a> not the 48th the 2nd. <a href="http://www.nrahq.com/givejoinhelp/membership/application.cgi%20">Join
the NRA now ! </a>
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[merchant2112]

LAMFDTK, maybe I should have used non instead of UN. I meant non-licensed persons. Not united nations. What I mean by a license is not really that but a photo id that certifies that the holder has gone through an extensive background check. FBI, local, etc. so that the holder can walk into any gun shop, show ect... and buy what he or she wants and walk out with it. This would be renewable say every 5 years like the state permits we have now for pistols and revolvers. (Witch I have.) Now I would prefer no waiting periods but we have to have some way of keeping the firearms out of the criminals too stupid to acquire a stolen gun.

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[Gurm]

I am with LAM. I don't currently own a gun, for reasons stated above. But I am a card-carrying member of the NRA - not because I agree with all of their philosophies and methodologies, but because I believe very seriously in our constitutional rights.

And I'm not talking about what MOST people think are our constitutional rights. It's not your right to not be insulted, or to never have to feel like you're persecuted, or to have money, or even to be happiness. It's your right not to have your PURSUIT of happiness abridged. It's also your right to have a gun - whether or not the FBI, Interpol, or the police think it's a good idea.

Now, if you're convicted of a crime, you get some (if not all) of your rights taken away. You have waived them by... robbing, murdering, or whatever. But if you start putting someone in control of whether or not I'm "worthy" of owning a gun, you start taking away my rights. And I won't let you. I'll go buy the gun I haven't gotten yet, and use it to protect myself.

K?

- Gurm

[LAMFDTK]

merchant2112 I thought I was the only horrible speller!

[merchant2112]

you think this is bad, you should see when i really don't check (read drinking too much on wed, or friday night.)

[Himself]

I think in general that laws should be reviewed to see how effective they are. They can never be perfect when you are fighting human behaviour but some solutions are better than others. Or maybe there are no good laws to get people to behave themselves.