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two wheeled targets

2006-12-12 13:47:39.389964+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Over at Strip Mining for Whimsy, Joshua Norton is on a roll: first he pointed to a man sentenced to "almost two years" for killing a bicyclist, then he pointed to a woman sentenced to three and a half years for killing a motorcyclist. As flamingbanjo commented of the first story:

Jeez, all he did was intentionally run down a bicyclist with his car. It's not like he sold drugs or something. Drugs kill!

As I've ranted before (8 years ago(!)), we give very special protections to irresponsible users of the deadliest weapons out there, and if people wielded firearms they way they wave cars around we'd move to Kabul or Baghdad, 'cause they use AK-47s more responsibly there.

[ related topics: Automobiles Guns Bicycling ]

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