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Originally Posted by StevenDuang
Guns are illegal.
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Owning a gun is completely legal.
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Originally Posted by Black240Sx
Driving a fast car down a desserted road at high speeds would be the equivilent to shooting a gun in the middle of no where. The government wouldnt take your gun if you were using it safely, and there is a certain safety factor involved in any kind of speeding. Doing 70 in a school zone is terrible, but doing 140km/h down the no. 1 between Abbotsford and Langley is a walk in the park and by no means endangers anyone if the road is clear.
Yes the government will take your gun if you kill someone, and by all means take my car and throw me in jail if it kills someone, but if someone is operating a vehicle safely and in no way threatening the lives of others, it is completely unfair to take their personal property because of a legal technicality. Talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than excessive speeding in many cases and they arent impounding cars for people texting (they should though.)
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Having a gun seized after murdering someone was a deliberate hyperbole, because a dangerous driver is equally capable of killing someone with his car as with a gun. There's a comfort zone built into our speed limits, aside from school and park zones, which make speeding, to a degree, safe. Traveling at 140km/p between Langley and Abby in good conditions does fit within that comfort zone, traveling at 200km/p in a Civic while it snows does not.
The driver could easily have lost control and killed himself or a fellow motorist due to his negligence, so he should be punished appropriately. Seizing his car seems appropriate, because creating the significant possibility of killing someone is almost equal to committing the act itself.