Drivers education

I also think there should be a political awareness test for voting, as well intentioned idiots are pretty dangerous.

 

The freedom of travel and the right to bear arms is already licensed by the constitution. There should be no licenses, no registrations, no fees required for someone to exercise these rights. To require such is not freedom.

 

The idiots have as much right to vote as anyone else. This is dangerous. Who would decide who gets to vote, and what questions gat asked ?

 

Hence why I stated what I did. It always brings outrage.

Well, not always, and to me, that's alarming when someone actually agrees with the statement.

Driving is not necessary to freely travel.

However, bearing arms is necessary to keep and bear arms. (However, I do think you can lose this right if you prove yourself irresponsible or dangerous.)

I think the person who goes down and votes for the worst possible candidate because "you all deserve it!" has the same right to vote as anyone else. (Although I highly support revocation of non-profit status for any group that goes to housing projects to give free rides but only if you vote for a certain candidate.)

 

Everyone is free to travel without a license. However, if you want to operate potentially dangerous equipment on public roads where you easily have the potential of injuring or killing other persons if you are not competent, you need to maintain certain standards (good vision, knowledge of traffic laws, proven ability to operate the equipment, equipment in safe operating condition, etc.) for the public good.

I took the train from Fort Worth to Dallas and back again yesterday afternoon for a business meeting. No one asked me to see a license or registration. I paid a very minor fee to travel on the train system (an all day pass to any point in the DFW Metroplex that the system reaches) which was a pittance compared to the cost of gasoline to make that trip.

When I arrived in Dallas, I decided to walk the 3/4 mile to and from the building where I had my meeting instead of riding the DART light rail train because I had the time and wanted to walk through Dealey Plaza (the site where Kennedy was assasinated). No one asked me for a license or registration or for a fee (although a guy asked me for money to buy "a sandwich").

But if I wanted to drive the train myself, or drive me pickup back and forth on I-30 and other roads, I would expect there to be some standards for the public good. Traveling within our nation is certainly a right granted by the Constitution. Driving an automobile on public roads is not.

Hardly. We are way too lax with our automotive licensing as it is. I have know of senior citizens who are legally blind who drove every day. They are a danger to themselves and everyone else on the road. And there are way too many teenagers who obviously don't have the maturity to drive that endanger everyone because they think the interstate highway system is the latest racing videogame.