This is an interesting one:
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Did the 55 MPH limit make us safer? There is no evidence to say it did. What is sure did was clog highways at rush hour, not only making driving more complicated, but forcing people to drive at less ideal times, possibly while they are tired.
Also these laws were first imposed in the 1970s when cars had drum-brakes that could lock-up, and tires that were not safe at high speeds. Now that cars are safer and can handle at high speeds….the limits are the same as they have been for the last 30+ years.
If there was an argument about letting the government dictate an arbitrary limit on things this is it. Weather we’d be safer or not, the government won’t give back what it has taken.
So we won’t give you the power to abuse in the first place. Deal?
Who actually drove 55 mph? Laws like that didn’t MAKE us drive 55.
So, while the speed limit may have been 55, everyone continued to drive 65-70 mph, the speed that the highways were designed for.
I drive about 4mph slower than my designated blocker.
The blocker defines the speed limit!
As I recall, that law wasn’t passed to promote safety. It was proposed to promote fuel efficiency during an oil crisis (and even the linked Wikipedia article says it didn’t save much).
Now that cars are more fuel efficient, achieving the peak efficiency balance between 65 and 70 MPH, has the speed limit been lifted? In some places, yes, but not in others – here in Oregon, it’s still 55 in most towns. It’s a trip (no pun intended) to get to Idaho, where the posted highway limit is 75 but most people are doing 85-90.
In most cases things like speed limits are really about revenue enhancement.
There are a few places where the speed limit reflects the laws of physics. Unfortunately the vast majority of our roads are posted so far bellow what physics will allow that accidents are actually CAUSED by the expectation that the posted limit is low. The signs for regulatory (revenue enhancement) and laws of physics speed limits are identical. There is no way to tell the difference until it’s too late!
As for magazine limits the whole point is that they want ‘their guys’ to have more than ‘we’ have to put us mere Citizens at a disadvantage should the unorganized militia ever need to take a stand against agents of tyranny. Given that the Battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in resistance to the Governor’s efforts at gun control…
There’s also that States don’t keep cranking speed limits down.
New York didn’t go from a max of 30mph to just 10mph, and then say that cops (and retired cops!) can still go 30.
Also note the provincialism of the anti’s by thinking 55 is a sensible and common speed limit. (And presenting it as a universal) Because heaven forbid they say. “Okay… some places are 75 and 70 is real common and a few have no daylight speed-limit…)
Accuracy who cares about that, let’s go Double Nickle!
Of course… cars don’t have speed governors in them but the antis would wish they did.
That’s definitely a H&K magazine, because those bullets are loaded backwards.
Heh! Didn’t notice that! Good catch!
The 55 MPH speed was created after the arab oil embargo in ’73 to reduce fuel consumption. It did for the era of cars that did typically 18mpg. It was shown to lower fatalities back then before airbags, metal dashboards, crappy tires and drum brakes, but no cell phones.
Eck!
Not to mention that the federal 55mph speed limit is defunct. There is no federal limit- they leave it to the states. And this is an argument for how we need a federal limit on magazines? Man, theses guys can’t come up with a valid comparison to save their lives.
My car is fully capable of going three times faster than that speed limit.
There never was a federal speed limit… what there was is a withholding of federal grants for highway improvements to states that din’t comply. They still do that.
For some states its serious revenue!
Either way its apples and ashcans. One actually makes some form of sense the other
is purely made up.
Those “large capacity magazine clips” should be banned because they feel bad to them. Remember these idiots are reading the names of “gun violence” victims
including criminals that were victims of there own crimes! These are people that
have no critical thought skills.
Eck!
Considering governments kill people by the millions upon millions I do not feel safer with a smaller magazine size. Oh course there is also the concept that driving is not a right while firearms are recognized as such in the Constitution.
Why don’t you find for me the right for an abortion or homosexual marriage in the Constitution?
Traffic fatalities went down in Montana when they had no speed limit on the Interstates.
Police officers concentrated on removing unsafe drivers, DUIIs, people in unsafe vehicles, and particularly on little old ladies of either sex who were driving dangerously slow, and forcing people to go around them.
When a federal judge ordered them to put up 75 MPH limit signs, the fatality rate went backup.
Eck!:
A circuit court judge actually ordered the state of Montana to comply with a 75 MPH limit. He claimed that Montana’s “safe and reasonable speed” standard was too vague, after some useless retard appealed because he was ticketed for driving at 100+ mph on a beater pickup with bad brakes and bald tires.