Text 16160, 73 rader
Skriven 2008-05-26 11:33:38 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 16114 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Freedom
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Hello Björn!

26 May 08 13:11, you wrote to me:

 RC>> I think the firearm argument is ridiculous when used by you all
 RC>> to berate the USA over the 2nd Ammendment.

 BF>    [It's still spelled 'amendment', Ross... ]

Dont you have anything better to do than spell check the messages of others?

Typo's happen all the time, and unless it is a gross mispelling, there really
shouldnt be a big deal over it, except if you have no other argument to make?
:)

 BF>    You mean that not even a reality check does convince you?

Do remember, that while I have a right to keep and bear arms, I dont exercise
it..

I did at one time in the 1980's own a Marlin .22cal tube fed semi-auto rifle
for target shooting, I ended up selling it 6 months after I got it. The nearest
shooting range was 60 miles away from the Metro DC suburb I lived in at the
time and was the only legal place I could use it at, so I unjustified my need
for it.

 RC>> I am sure you all have strict drunk driving laws, have those laws
 RC>> stopped people from driving drunk?

 BF>    Of course it has! Sweden was among the first in the world to make
 BF> DUI illegal, and we have always had very low traffic casualty numbers
 BF> in an international perspective. And it's not just that so many people
 BF> here drive Volvo or SAAB, the safest cars in the world -- a sober and
 BF> healthy person very rarely causes a fatal traffic accident...

People still drive drunk, still speed, despite the laws that are in place. You
paint a biased picture of Sweden or you are blind if you think people in your
nation dont break the law..

As you drive down a Swedish roadway, how exactly do you know the drivers next
to you, in front or to your rear havent had a few drinks, do you test them?

People can only get convicted of DUI when/if they get caught!

You can only get charged with speeding if the police catch you doing it!

Why is this hard for you to understand?

Let me tell you something, I havent had a beer since 1996, havent had much of
anything related to booze since then, except for a taste of rum in my eggnog
around the holidays, but in my younger days, I drank beer with the best of
them, nothing like a pitcher of draft beer.

I am darn lucky I never got caught driving, but thats the key, I never got
caught. I had weird luck, I have gotten pulled over for speeding, was drunk,
but only ticketted for speeding, twice I was pulled over for supposedly
speeding, had not a drop to drink but given a sobreity test, one time the roads
were iced up badly. Those times I didnt get ticketted but it was still weird
luck. The time I got pulled over on the icy roads I was pissed, he said I was
driving erratically, well duh, I was trying to keep the car within the ice
ruts. Then on the sobriety test he tried to say I appeared drunk, you try
walking a straight line on a sheet of ice when the temps are in the teens at
night.

LOL

==
Ross
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