Hate Law

[DemocraticWoof]

There are people who always hate laws which are for their own good. People shrink easily when the law has a threat to their status or property. But People if refrain and obey accordingly then the Law itself is good enough and is able to reduce the hostilities that may require police force to control that law.

[IRoNiK]

the thing is though, that there is always going to be people who disobey laws, and if they disobey them, it puts everyone in danger. this is why i refuse to support gun laws. if they take everyones guns away, then what happens when they cant find some people who have guns, and then the people that still have theirs, use them against people without. that probably sounded confusing, but i am just saying, no matter what the law is, there will always be people who are against it, and we just have to deal with it. By the way, the U.S. didnt come to be its own country by refraining and obeying the law ;) <-- go check the history books.

[mis_chiff]

Laws are meant to be broken ---not really
but they sure get bent alot!

[Old Corps Gunny]

Laws are meant to provide a structure for a society to live and work together; read the preamble to the Constitution of the United States to see what the authors hoped to accomplish by writing out a code delineating the "law of the land". Without some such framework there would be anarchy or tyranny, neither of which is conducive to a productive society, let alone a fair society. I don't want to get in a debate about the Second Amendment; it says it all: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon. Having spent 23 years in the Marine Corps bearing arms to defend the Constitution and the rights it confers upon American citizens, I do not appreciate some liberal trying to say I am not to be trusted with firearms now that I am retired from service. I also am averse to trusting my safety or the safety of my family to the local police department when the typical response time is at least 15 minutes and usually 35 minutes or more. Even if all the firearms could be taken out of the hands of the populace (impossible), what would be next: hunting bows, baseball bats, knives, canes, home-made nunchakus? As long as there are criminals, the law-abiding citizens have the right to be able to protect themselves, their families and their property.

[George W Bush]

Hi. I be new.

My take on laws: expiration dates.

Let laws expire when they are not used. That means, people have aligned themselves not to disobey and we can get rid of the paperwork that inundates the justice system -
it is why lawyers make all the money, dont you see?
while theres nothing wrong with making money, the point is there does not need to be all this law.

[Athena]

The following is a quote by Cicero, a statesman in Rome, whose
writings were vital to the construction of the US Constitution.
He speaks of Natures Laws and God, and this is before the time
the time of Christianity.

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of
universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons
to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong doing by its
prohibitions. And it does not lay its commands or
prohibitions upon good men in vain, though neither have any
effect on the wicked. It is a sin to try to alter this law,
nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it
is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed
from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not
look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it.
And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens,
or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal
and unchangeable law will be valued for all nations and all
times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is, God,
over us all, for he is the author of this law, its
promulgator, and its enforcing judge.
Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying
his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will
suffer the worst penalties, even if he escapes what is
commonly considered punishment."

[Mayberry]

My take on laws: expiration dates. Absolutely. There are way too many antiquated, ridiculuos laws still on the books. Social Security, Federal Income Tax,...... There should also be something about redundant laws, and something against the way politicians try to "bundle" crap together to slip some pork project or special interest junk through. We need the line item veto, that will put an end to the sneaky stuff.

[Nathan Brazil]

There are people who always hate laws which are for their own good.

Seat belt law, anyone? What business is it of anyone's if I wear a seat belt? None at all. If you want to argue that medical costs to the public go up if someone's injured because he didn't wear a seat belt, then pass laws releasing insurance companies from paying claims to those people. And...stop forcing the public to finance medical care.

Laws are rarely passed in the best interest of the public, they're always passed in the best interest of certain lobbying groups.

[micfranklin]

Just because something is in the law doesn't make it a good law...

[underdawg]

I absolutely hate laws that are meant to protect us from ourselves. I think that is government overstepping their boundaries. Government should only make laws to protect people from other people. We should be able to freely do anything to out own body as we see fit.

Where I live the local government passed a bicycle helmet law, where everyone within our area must wear a helmet or recieve a fine. I absolutely refuse to obey that law. It is my body and if I happen to fall and my head gets flattened like a mellon it is my risk and my right to do it if I want to.

[micfranklin]

As I said in another thread, government needs to protect other people from other people, but not you from you.

[underdawg]

I totally agree with you micfranklin.