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"Restrict more, different rights to make us safer^tm"

• shadowgovt 7y ago
  Most laws restrict some right to make us safer, and most laws succeed at that. For all the vehicular homicides in the US, there'd be more if we didn't require driving on the right-hand-side of the road and not driving on the sidewalk. The question is always where the tradeoff point should be, not whether there's any tradeoff.
  • sdinsn 7y ago
    The difference is that driving is not a constitutional right.
    • shadowgovt 7y ago
      Indeed, and the number of people who would be interested in a Constitutional convention to discuss that (as well as other things that are assumed necessary for a free and stable American society under just laws) is higher than a younger me would have anticipated. ... but a younger me was born before Columbine.