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From: rob@nitrex.UUCP (rob robertson)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
Message-ID: <150@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 00:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 00:47:52 1985
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In article <805@x.UUCP> jb@x.UUCP (Jim Burnett) writes:
>Driving as a right not a privilege?  That is one of the most absurd 
>statements I have heard in a long time.  You think just because you
>are of legal age and can somehow procure an automobile, you should
>be allowed to travel on PUBLIC highways.  Wrong...wrong...wrong.
>A car is a weapon just like a firearm and should be licensed and
>should be controlled in the same way anything that is dangerous to the public
>is.  

This isn't so much of a flame as a point to ponder about the American reliance 
on cars, but unless one lives in a big city with a rapid transportation
system, if you don't have a car you don't have a livelyhood.  I mean
who in America lives close enough to walk to work, to the supermarket and
to a department store?  This is something our society really has to address.