Racket wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
Good question. Put a governor on cars in all places with speed limits. If you are in a place without a speed limit, like private property or Montana, then you can legally disable the governor.
It would save a LOT of lives. The reason is physics. The kinetic energy of the car varies with the square of the velocity. So a car going 100 mph has 4x the energy of the same car going 50 mph.
This is a bad argument because it is unreasonable to effectively govern a car's speed electronically on every road. If a car is governed to 85 mph then you could still speed in a 25 mph zone. Thus, like guns, the onus is on the owner to handle the object responsibly. Instead, you should point out two things. First, and most importantly, ownership and operation of a car has a fairly high barrier of entry. It requires a yearly registration and wheel tax, an emissions check (in some states), and licensure that requires proof of responsibility and competent operation, and, of course, cars cost a lot more than guns. A common sense solution would be to treat guns in some sort of similar manner. Second, you could point out the fact that cars have more utility than a gun and that pretty much anything could be used in an illegal manner. This is a slightly vaguer position to defend though.
I said it would save lives, not that it would keep people from breaking the law. If the car is governed to 85 mph then you wouldn't be able to do 100 mph. That would save lives. It would also help the police catch criminals because police cars would be allowed to go faster.
You points on guns are well taken.