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Originally Posted by pan6467
Ah but you have been legislating smoking, cell phone use in cars, now you are starting trans fats and the worst part...... people keep voting for these laws to be passed.
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While I understand where you are going here I disagree with your examples. There is enough evidence now on second hand smoke to support legislation restricting where people can and cannot smoke so I really don't have an issue with is (of course, I am not a smoker either). You can make a similar arguement with cars. If a driver loses control or is not paying attention it is not just his/her life they are playing with but the lives all those driving or walking around them.
This proposed law just protects morons from themselves though.
While I am concerned about the whole "loss of freedom" issue I see this as more of a "drain on the system" issue. The legislature will have to take time to investigate this proposal, run it through the proper channels and vote on it. Then law enforcement will have to train their officers on what is and is not legal under the new law and how to most properly and effectively enforce it. All of this will be going on while the homeless are ignored, while the health care system continues to fall apart, while the public education system continues its decline, etc.
It just seems to me that lawmakers would rather mess with BS like this than actually
work on the issues that are really defining this country today.