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> The whole jaywalking thing seems very authoritarian > are arbitrary in the US. But the US has a lot of > that type of thing in general. That depends on you
by radicalbyte 12y ago
> The whole jaywalking thing seems very authoritarian
> are arbitrary in the US. But the US has a lot of
> that type of thing in general.
That depends on your viewpoint.
Here in Holland people are being arrested for owning airsoft guns (toys which fire plastic ball-bearings at speeds high enough to pierce paper but low enough as to minimise chance of injury).
Americans would find that kind of insane.
- icebraining 12y agoI don't know; a man was arrester in New Jersey for firing an airsoft gun in his backyard[1], since they're classified as regular firearms and require permit in that state. [1] http://6abc.com/archive/9285909/ http://6abc.com/archive/9285909/
- adventured 12y agoUsing one-off examples as it pertains to the US doesn't work very well as an argument when laws and enforcement vary so drastically from location to location. Simply put, that isn't a good counter example to the parent's point, because it doesn't apply to more than a very small percentage of the US population.
- 8note 12y agoa larger population than that of the Netherlands, mind you. from wikipedia, new jersey: ~9 million Netherlands: ~7 million
- radicalbyte 12y ago> Netherlands: ~7 million Erm, population of The Netherlands is 16.8million. See http://countryeconomy.com/demography/population/netherlands http://countryeconomy.com/demography/population/netherlands
- mcv 12y ago7 million is about the population of the Randstad, the agglomeration in the west of Netherland that contains the major cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht) as well as numerous minor ones, grown together into what's practically one giant city. But there's still 10 million people living in the rest of the country.
- wtbob 12y agoMany Americans would consider New Jersey's weapons laws insance, yes…