Laws I don't agree with etc.

JRJ

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The Belmont thread is too long, so I thought I'd start something else.:%

In California, goods made from kangaroo leather aren't allowed. I don't know why:/

Some states don't allow the sale of liquor on Sundays. ???

Maybe you know of some laws that just don't make any sense. Please share, and smoke 'em if you got 'em8)
 

Plainsman

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1. Helmet laws: Personal responsibility/ Socailism
2. Seat belt laws: See #1
3. No booze being sold on Sunday:See #1
4. Some stupid city in a stupid state that wants to ban smoking in publie: Socialism
5. Background checks on buying weapons: Do you honestly believe that the bad guy is buying his weapons at WalMart?
 

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Immigration laws.(lack of enforcement)
Laws of gravity(when it comes to falling off ladders)
Murphy's law
 

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Laws that give illegal immigrants preference in state funded universities.

Affirmative action legislation

Laws that give preference to insects over people.

Laws usurping private property rights. Like smoking laws.

Laws invoking "personal responsibility" like helmet, seatbelt, life jacket use etc.
 

JRJ

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Good job Plainsman, POINTER, and ob, although I don't want to smell smoke while I eat and I'm OK with not selling firearms to felons over the counter.
 

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The smoking thing is either commom courtesy or common sense. Granted not all smokers are courteous, but neither are drivers (road rage). And if you go into a resturant or bar that allows smoking, that's your problem then. Pick one that doesn't allow it and everyone is happy.
A felon will get a gun, the laws will not stop that.
 

POINTER94

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It's all about choice. Don't you just love that. Don't like smoke, don't go there. Besides those people who smoke couldn't possibly cook anyways. But how about bars? No food there, except maybe chips and beef jerky. Does smoke affect your appreciation of beef jerky? It's smoked in many cases you know.

So just so I get this right, your opinion of smoke usurps personal property rights. God bless America.

Just for fun, next time you go to work tell the secretary that fat people offend you and she better chop 75lbs or you will be working for legislation to throw her in the street.
 

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Pointer, those are freedoms and the socialists HATE those. Freedom of choice is not in their vocabulary, except for the "A" word which I won't use, then it's OK.
 

Haut Medoc

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except for the "A" word which I won't use, then it's OK. .
Yep!
Background checks on buying weapons: Do you honestly believe that the bad guy is buying his weapons at WalMart?
He would if he could....
Probably be cheaper.....
If you feel the need to shoot something, plan ahead......;)
 

JRJ

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I like smoked salmon and jerky:love: Not interested in debating smoking. I inhaled cigarette smoke for over 30 years. You just can't teach me anything about how sweet it is. lol
 

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Smoking sucks. But who are we to tell private business owners how to conduct their business? Socialism/Communism sucks worse.
 

JRJ

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If a business smells bad and I don't shop there, its really not a communist plot, its freedom. They are free to stink, and I don't have to shop there.
 

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JRJ said:
If a business smells bad and I don't shop there, its really not a communist plot, its freedom. They are free to stink, and I don't have to shop there.

They are not free to do so, and that is a law that stinks.
 

JRJ

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Maybe you haven't stayed at some of our finer motels where the cooking odors, maybe curry, wafts out into the lobby8)
 

Plainsman

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I am not so fortunate enough to stay at those places.:'(
 

Haut Medoc

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I once had 'fish head soup' at the Morrocan embassy....:%
 

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Keeping second hand smoke out of non-smoker's lungs is the smaller of two issues. Evidence shows that strict smoking laws entice people to quit. So therein lies the reason I like smoking restriction laws. I don't have to pay to keep these people on life support when their lungs finally take a dump. I don't have to pay for their cancer treatment, bronchitis and COPD medication, breathing machines, oxygen cylinders, tracheotomies, ambulance rides, and hospital stays. I don't have to pay to subsidize the tobacco farmers.

Smokers are my job security though, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
 

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Drowned said:
Keeping second hand smoke out of non-smoker's lungs is the smaller of two issues. Evidence shows that strict smoking laws entice people to quit. So therein lies the reason I like smoking restriction laws. I don't have to pay to keep these people on life support when their lungs finally take a dump. I don't have to pay for their cancer treatment, bronchitis and COPD medication, breathing machines, oxygen cylinders, tracheotomies, ambulance rides, and hospital stays. I don't have to pay to subsidize the tobacco farmers.

Smokers are my job security though, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

Rat, your post embodies the quintesssence of my "seething detestation" of tobacco.....
Except ya left out the fact it is stinky.........:)
 

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Kepim alive longer so we can squeeze more taxes outa em.8)
 

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So I must assume that both the Duck and the Rat seethingly detest, sugar, flour, fat and monosodium glutamate (thought I'd throw that one in for good measure) . Since all of those (maybe not the gluta stuff . . . ) contribute to obesity and the associated health risks, the growers of sugar cane, corn, wheat, cows, pork, dark meat chickens, dark meat turkeys, ducks, dairy owners, cheese factories, fat renderers, Hershey's, Nestle's, Ghiradelli's, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, what do they call those bee guys again?, maple tree guys, Aunt Jemima, Margarine farmers, Marie Calendar, the 31 flavors stock holders, Betty Crocker, man when you get rolling you can find a whole buncha guys who are subsidised, should be out of business, and are leading directly to the downfall of America. Rant to be continued at a later date . . .

Do beer guts cause heart attacks? Budweiser, Coors, Schlitz, Anchor Steam . . . yada yada yada and on and on into perpetuity, bankruptcy, squalor, dust bowls, but whoever is left will be skinny and it won't matter because they will be cooked by global warming, so who gives a flyin' flip? Rant to be continued at a later date . . .

And I also want relaxed gun laws so I can shoot more smokers. Rant to be continued at a later date . . .
 
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