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The Biden Administration is Now Applying its Failed Thinking on Gun Control To Cars<\/a><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t write about cars much here, but there are some striking parallels to gun\u00a0control in some recent moves by the Biden administration. Tell me if this rings any bells. Rather than punishing people who do idiotic things with their cars that endanger the public, the National Transportation Safety Board instead wants to\u00a0punish all drivers with speed-limiting devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When we take a closer look at a particular tragedy they\u2019re using to justify the move, we can see that the regulatory authoritarians in the administration apply the same flawed collectivist thinking to virtually every aspect of modern life.<\/p>\n

It all started at the beginning of last year in Las Vegas, when a driver ran a red light. That happens all the time, of course, but the feds want us to focus on the speed of the car that ran the light: 103 MPH. The offending Dodge Challenger slammed into a minivan and several other vehicles, killing everyone in the Challenger and the minivan.<\/p>\n

One thing the regulators don\u2019t want us to focus on, of course, is the fact that the driver of the vehicle was severely impaired. He had a potent mix of cocaine and PCP in his system, and therefore couldn\u2019t have been anywhere near his right mind when he failed to stop. He also had a long history of previous speeding tickets that Nevada authorities hadn\u2019t taken seriously enough to bother revoking his license.<\/p>\n

The NTSB makes a number of recommendations here, but only one of them makes any sense: taking this kind of reckless speeding seriously.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that someone with a history of driving at those kinds of speeds in a city would be punished with the loss of their license or time behind bars.\u00a0 You\u2019d be wrong. The jails are apparently already overcrowded with tax cheats, people who carried without permits, druggies, and other non-violent offenders that the state feels are greater threats to society.<\/p>\n

Most sane people would agree that people who actually endanger the public should be the state\u2019s first priority, but state bureaucracies don\u2019t seem to be staffed by many sane people.<\/p>\n

All of the other NTSB recommendations center around adding an Big Brother-type unwanted gadget to our cars: speed limiting devices. The NTSB says that everyone\u2019s cars should, at minimum, make annoying noises when if we\u2019re speeding, even just a few miles per hour over the posted limit.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the least intrusive of their proposals. What they\u2019d really rather see is the installation of devices that prevents cars from speeding at all. For people who\u2019ve been cited for low-level speeding offenses \u2014 think 10 mph over the limit \u2014 they recommend states force interlocks (like\u00a0DWI interlocks<\/a>) that actually shut a car down if the driver speeds too much.<\/p>\n

If you think about this even a little bit, the logic simply doesn\u2019t pan out. The vast, vast majority of drivers will never drive as fast in a city as the deceased Las Vegas scofflaw did. Even fewer people mess around with cocaine and PCP. Fewer still would ever do all of those things at the same time.<\/p>\n

Just as it is with gun\u00a0control, the government\u2019s default solution isn\u2019t to go after the crackheads and other lawbreakers who drive 100 MPH on city streets. Instead, they want to force\u00a0everyone<\/em>\u00a0to spend thousands of dollars extra when buying a car that will prevent them speeding at all.<\/p>\n

Authoritarians and collectivists are incapable of thinking in terms of individual freedoms, or how those who endanger the public \u2014 usually with long records of doing exactly that \u2014 should be the ones who are punished for it. They\u2019re knee-jerk reaction is always to punish everyone for the stupidity of a few.<\/p>\n

For those of us who dare to disagree with the Bidenbots\u2019 approach, the NTSB recommends that we get more \u201ceducation.\u201d Instead of realizing that they work for the voting public and that we don\u2019t want or need to buy expensive robo-nanny technology for our cars, they think we\u2019re simply too stupid to realize what\u2019s best for us and take our medicine. We\u2019re just too ignorant and are in need of re-education on the benefits of imposing a top-down control system that wouldn\u2019t have stopped the Las Vegas moron from taking coke and PCP before getting behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Tell us if this also rings any bells \u2014 the government also wants advertisers to stop telling us that\u00a0fast cars are cool<\/a>. A significant segment of the public may like fast cars, but in the eyes of regulators we\u2019re just a bunch of brain-dead idiots who are at the mercy of evil advertisers. If they\u2019d only tell more often that\u00a0the Chevy Volt is totally cool<\/a>, we\u2019d be lining up at our local dealers clamoring for them and eagerly reducing our carbon footprint. Right?<\/p>\n

As usual, government bureaucrats think there\u2019s no freedom that\u2019s too important to get rid of for the greater good, and that anybody who disagrees with them is too dumb or unsophisticated to know what\u2019s good for them. Just as with guns, it\u2019s not about reducing crimes or public safety, it\u2019s all about control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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