We Must Ban Automobiles
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Posted 2011-02-12 22:36
by Karl Denninger
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We Must Ban Automobiles
 

This is an absolutely unacceptable amount of bloodshed:

SAN DIEGO -- A taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District early Saturday, injuring more than two dozen people, police said.

We cannot have automobiles doing this sort of damage. 25 people were injured, 17 of them requiring hospitalization, and one woman had her leg severed.

These are astounding and utterly unacceptable injures.  These evil things called "taxi cabs" are responsible for the horrifying damage done in San Diego.  That's a type of automobile, and of course we can't trust any of them - they're all the spawn of Satan.

For the good of America we must rid ourselves of this cancerous monstrosity and return immediately to the use of horses and asses for the transport of people.  These hunks of metal and plastic are just too dangerous to have in civilian hands.  Over 40,000 people die a year in and around them; by far one of the most-dangerous instrumentalities ever invented by mankind.

It's time to impose the common-sense restriction of banning all automobiles from private ownership.  Not only is this is a common-sense reaction to this carnage, there's nothing in the Constitution that gives you an individual right to own one!

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Karl,

Excellent Point - although you may need to include the taxi driver. Get rid of illegal taxi drivers. (I don't know the immigration status of taxi driver is)

-Was that a 2 beer Ticker?

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Just put in an order for two asses, but demand is up so may have to put up with a horse's ass.

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Does that mean one shouldn't put their foot on the trigger, unless they have a valid target in their sights?

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Well said Nancy Pelosi.... Well said.
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I love the satire. This should be posted to the NRA website.

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Don't forget to ban the ammo for the cars too. It is dispensed through a large caliber gun with no trigger guard and should one desire, the ammo can be used to make giant fireballs, which could take even more lives than a lone driver in a cab.

At minimum, all of these evil monsters should come equipped with front and back air bags to protect pedestrians. Currently airbags are only installed to protect the perpetrators! What kind of country do we live in? The only reason we have these on the highway is that big oil and the UAW support them. As we know, Obama is a big supporter of the UAW so don't expect anything to happen in this administration.

I actually expected more of this copy cat auto weapons since the Egyptian video coverage.

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"I honestly think - and I am not an expert on the amendments - I think the only people in this nation who should be allowed to drive are police officers. I don't care if you want to go places, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'sorry'. It is 2011, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a car and if you do own a car, I think you should go to prison." - Some dumb bitch.



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Nah.... replace all them cabbies....


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LOL I guess I am not the only one sick of gun control vampires stampeding to suck the blood out of fresh corpses before it has gone cold.

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Permits to drive automobiles should logically and immediately be restricted to "may issue" by local authorities.

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Woe betide anyone being caught in possession of an automatic automobile.

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Why do you complain? It's the criminals who decide how proceeds of crime are spent, not the victims.
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What you really have to do is eliminate the driving exam to get a license.

Actually better just eliminate the need of a driver license.

Cars don’t kill people, people do.

And no registration will also be good, is just annoying and allows the government to track us.

Just make mandatory for every adult in the US to have and drive a car so we all take responsibility and begin to drive properly and respectfully.

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And, for those who are permitted, such as collectors, and special dispensation allowed for them to own them, special licenses must be issued for automobiles with more than 4 cylinders.

There is no need at all for anyone to own an automobile with 6, 8, 10, or even 12 cylinders.

Nobody needs that type of horsepower capacity.

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Heh, let's see how many progressives pick this up and run with it!

I betcha there'll be some.

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Had to laugh. I posted this same thought in another blog this afternoon.

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Heh, let's see how many progressives pick this up and run with it!

I betcha there'll be some.


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"For the good of America we must rid ourselves of this cancerous monstrosity and return immediately to the use of horses and asses for the transport of people"

GM and the government are working on this!
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O.M. G.!!!! KARL

STOP IT!

I can't handle it!

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I propose:
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don't be ridiculous. no one is calling for the banning of cars, trucks or normal taxi cabs. we are only trying to restrict access to the so called *assault* cabs. there is no constitutionally fundamental right to possess assault cabs and there is no reason in modern, civilized society to own one.

this feeble attempt to conflate common sense regulation into a right wing "evil government trampling rights" screed is childish and unnecessary. you can have your cars and trucks. just not assault cabs. or cabs that have the thing that goes up. and what rational person needs a cab with more than 10 mile range? a cab built with greater than 10 mile range is designed with only one thing in mind. to kill people. these simple common sense regulations are obviously prudent and justified.



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karl:

your limited perspective has missed the larger picture. yes, an automobile did this. but, remember: many automobiles come from japan.

we must invade japan. and enact regime change.

i bet the cia has evidence that the japanese have a program for producing automobiles of mass destruction.

we must fight them over there, so that we don't have to fight them over here. and if you aren't with us, you are against us.

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The worst is yet to come. The green party has been pushing for these killing machines to go electric in the coming years. This is the equivalent of adding a silencer to an already known hazard. Look for deaths to go ballistic as these silent machines take to the road.

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