[UCANSEE2]

“Speeders cause an enormous amount of death and destruction on the nation’s highways. This stupid decision inspires them to speed even more.”

More likely, it will inspire them to be uncooperative when a taser is pointed at them, so that they can sue.

[Rick.Donaldson]

“Speeders cause an enormous amount of death and destruction on the nation’s highways. This stupid decision inspires them to speed even more.”

More likely, it will inspire them to be uncooperative when a taser is pointed at them, so that they can sue.

Both of these comments, by both of you are dumb remarks.

Number one, speeders do NOT cause "an enormous amount of death and destruction on the nation's highways".


I will grant that there are a lot of accidents involving speeding, but, the breakdowns show more single-vehicle accidents than anything, and the biggest contributing factor is "congestion ahead" on some of the reports.

The remarks that people will be uncooperative just so they can sue is also a ridiculous comment. That sounds very much like a certain other individual who says that "guns" are bad and we should limit them to certain people (cops) because someone MIGHT use one. Or the remarks of yet another person in the recent past on this site who said that "Kids shouldn't be allowed to shoot a bow and arrow in their back yard because they MIGHT hit something"....

That line of logic says we shouldn't do ANYTHING at all that is dangerous because we MIGHT cause someone else a problem - or worse that we should all simply stay home so we don't interfere with others because we might offend them or something.

If I happen to be driving 5 miles over the speed limit for some reason, on a road that isn't crowded, and there's no obstructions in my path, then it's not up to you two or anyone else to interfere with me "because you don't like it". A cop might stop me for going over the speed limit, but guess what? That's fine. It's not up to you to change lanes to "slow him down"... I've seen people do that out here where I have to come to work, and BRAG about it. They have a mental problem, it's called Passive-Aggressiveness and they are severely more dangerous than someone who is going 5 or 10 MPH over the speed limit. Here we have a LAW that says if you are NOT doing at least the speed limit, you're going to get a ticket!