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“...since you feel it is their responsibility.”

You can mock it all you want, but individual responsibility is the cornerstone of conservatism.

Conservatives prefer to take responsibility for their own lives - their financial welfare, their security, their education and their health.

Liberals look to the state to protect them and the state gets it wrong every time. Right of way laws are no exception. Giving pedestrians or bikers right of way makes them less safe - not more safe!

You think I’m a heartless person because I believe pedestrians and bikers should be blamed when they get struck? The opposite is true! It’s because I care for their safety and taking responsibility for their own safety makes them safer.

The minute you give pedestrians and bikers right of way and hold car drivers to blame for accidents, that’s when you have pedestrians walking out in front of cars without looking. Same with bikers.

Pedestrians were safer in the old days when getting hit was their own fault - we learned to look both ways and not cross if there was a car coming. The car had right of way, and we were safer as a result.

This is another example of liberals pushing for the government to regulate our safety and welfare - and screwing it up.

Thank GOD this nonsense has not infected marine right of way laws. The big ships still have right of way and the small ships have to stay out of their way. Why? Because it’s safer! It’s not a matter of fairness or inconvenience, it’s a matter of safety.

The liberals think it’s a matter of fairness and equality - they think pedestrians and bikers ought to have the right to go first, and the cars should have to brake for them out of fairness or equal rights. But in exchange for that equality - sense of importance - preferential treatment - that fairness - that right of way, they just traded away their own safety.

That’s what liberals do, that’s what the government does - they make dumb decisions using “group think” instead of taking advantage of natural laws, like free enterprise, supply and demand, trial and error, self preservation, animal instinct, common sense.

Believe me, I care about pedestrian and biker safety as much as you do - that’s why they should not ever have right-of-way. And yes, not having right-of-way means if they get struck by a car it’s their own fault.

If that sounds harsh it’s only because you haven’t thought it through all the way.