Re: John Burns: an exercise in contradiction
Where do you get the idea I embrace those laws? Just the opposite, but I understand the reason they exist is BECAUSE of highly visible, highly abrasive groups like ABATE.
I also agree that a lot, if not the bulk, of our freedoms are gone. To pick out "having to wear a helmet" is like complaining about one pebble in a boulder field. Why don't the AMA and ABATE complain about something that would actually help us all, like getting cell phones banned while driving? Whatever happened with the New England Journal of Medicine's report a few years ago which said that was just as dangerous as drunk driving?
Where do you get the idea I embrace those laws? Just the opposite, but I understand the reason they exist is BECAUSE of highly visible, highly abrasive groups like ABATE.
I also agree that a lot, if not the bulk, of our freedoms are gone. To pick out "having to wear a helmet" is like complaining about one pebble in a boulder field. Why don't the AMA and ABATE complain about something that would actually help us all, like getting cell phones banned while driving? Whatever happened with the New England Journal of Medicine's report a few years ago which said that was just as dangerous as drunk driving?