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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: gun control, seatbelt laws, drunk driving, etc.
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 11:11:34 EST
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Ray Chen writes:
> should be made smaller.  Sueing somebody for damages in a car accident
> when you weren't wearing a seat belt is like sueing somebody for 
> loading your gun before you looked down the barrel and pulled the
> trigger.

    Bad analogy.  Remember, in order to successfully sue someone for an auto
accident, you have to show that the accident was their fault.  A better
analogy:  Sueing someone for damages in a car accident when you weren't 
wearing a seat belt is like sueing somebody for accidentaly shooting you
when you weren't wearing your bullet-proof vest.
    I've been driving for nine years now with no accidents, no tickets,
and no safety belts.  If I get hurt because somebody else ran their car into
mine, I should still be able to sue their a** off.  I may have been hurt
less if I'd been wearing a safety belt, but I would also be hurt less if
whoever ran into me knew how to drive.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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