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2011-07-20T23:49:40.077-04:00

Found your post via Google+ Sparks tool, and wanted to comment. Nicely written, and thank you for sharing.

Your final sentence reminds me of a comment I saw on another blog not too long ago - the link is http://www.jimchines.com/2011/07/dumbass-law/#comment-65780 and the comment is:
I have proposed almost exactly the same rule. My tea party-ish uncle starts to sputter every time I do. He’s totally against dumbasses having guns. But he doesn’t want anyone to judge who is a dumbass except the dumbass, because otherwise it’s the government doing it, and he’d rather have dumbasses self checking than the government.

A lot of my conversations go like this:
Me: I’m for the right to carry guns unless you’re an idiot.
Uncle: but who decides that, the government?
Me: I decide. To get a gun you gotta line up and prove to me you aren’t an idiot.

That's been rattling around in my brain for a week now, and it's dawned on me that this is exactly what we do with cars. When we need to identify people who understand how to behave behind the wheel, they have to line up and prove to me that they can do it. And to you. And to our neighbors, because the DMV is a government program, and therefore by definition, anyone who passes a driving test has been tested by US, with the DMV agent as a proxy.

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