Letter in today's Carroll County Times is pretty good 
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...Today (June 10, 2013) as of this writing I have received two Breaking headline emails from the Carroll County Times, reporting two separate vehicle crashes in the County. Both of them sadly resulted in fatalities.
It is days like these that make me wonder, when will the State of Maryland finally ban these instruments of death and destruction? The number of people who are injured or killed by these things each year, either accidentally or on purpose, is just staggering.
Cars are inherently dangerous instruments which are too big and heavy, and go too fast to be safely controlled by some drivers, whether through negligence, inattention, malice, substance impairment, mental defect, or lack of driving skill. Keeping just bad drivers from behind the wheel won't solve the problem, because cars are frequently stolen or borrowed by bad drivers, and you can't always tell a bad driver from a good one. The cars are the problem.
Maryland should restrict what all people are allowed to drive. To start, ban all visual attributes which give cars the appearance of being fast or powerful, including racing stripes, spoilers, dual exhausts, hood intake scoops, convertible tops, gaudy hood ornaments, and all red cars. Next, create a roster of banned cars to include any vehicle that looks or sounds fast and powerful. Additionally we should limit gas tanks to no greater than one gallon capacity so that they cannot be driven very far without having to stop to refuel; and require governors (we could call them O'Malleys) on all cars to prevent them from exceeding 10 MPH.
After all, it's cars that kill people, not the drivers behind the wheel. Just like guns.
It is days like these that make me wonder, when will the State of Maryland finally ban these instruments of death and destruction? The number of people who are injured or killed by these things each year, either accidentally or on purpose, is just staggering.
Cars are inherently dangerous instruments which are too big and heavy, and go too fast to be safely controlled by some drivers, whether through negligence, inattention, malice, substance impairment, mental defect, or lack of driving skill. Keeping just bad drivers from behind the wheel won't solve the problem, because cars are frequently stolen or borrowed by bad drivers, and you can't always tell a bad driver from a good one. The cars are the problem.
Maryland should restrict what all people are allowed to drive. To start, ban all visual attributes which give cars the appearance of being fast or powerful, including racing stripes, spoilers, dual exhausts, hood intake scoops, convertible tops, gaudy hood ornaments, and all red cars. Next, create a roster of banned cars to include any vehicle that looks or sounds fast and powerful. Additionally we should limit gas tanks to no greater than one gallon capacity so that they cannot be driven very far without having to stop to refuel; and require governors (we could call them O'Malleys) on all cars to prevent them from exceeding 10 MPH.
After all, it's cars that kill people, not the drivers behind the wheel. Just like guns.
