We Must Ban Automobiles

The Market Ticker ^ | 2/13/2011 | Karl Denninger

[FromLori]

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!

[smokingfrog]

We don't need to ban cars, but we can make them a lot safer for pedestrians!

[Mister Da]

The right of the people to keep & bear (the costs of) automobiles shall not be infringed.

[I_Keep_My_Oath]

Did you know that many automobiles on American streets are enabled with a device known as cruise control and have fuel tanks larger than is required for daily commuting?

We should move immediately to ban these “semi-automatic” and “high capacity” devices.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

My Doc doesn’t ask, as she knows I carry, even in her office and is fine with that...