The Post Gazette staff seems to feel that individual liberties are not as important as "public safety". They show that motorcycle related deaths are up from 158 a year ago to 205 this past year. Also noted by the staff is that many of these deaths were needless. Am I to assume that some of these deaths are needed?
Also stated for reasons to give up individual liberties is because it translates into a large public cost to treat these injuries. So the PG staff goes to the bastion of individual liberties, the Philadelphia suburbs where state senator Connie Williams wants to require a minimum level of medical insurance.
These sound like grand socialist ideas, why not require us all to wear seat belts, or register our vehicle with the state, or ask permission to drive on public roads(drivers license). Oh thats right the STATE already requires it.
Let me ask you, how long before we are "required" to seek permission to marry who we want(license), to do with our property what we want (zoning laws, property tax) or elect who we want(ballot access laws)? WE are already there, and if we do not fight the state every step of the way we will soon be SLAVES to the state with no individual freedoms. Whether it affects you or not, stand up for everyone's liberties or prepare to lose yours, in the name of the common good of course.
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