Thread by @MirthDAL

1/ The gun lobby wants us to believe that regulating guns will reduce gun ownership and is an overreach by the state.

Let's look at cars. At first, there were no rules or regulations. They could be built any which way. And anyone could drive them.

Then came the awful rules...

2/ Drivers had to register their intent to drive - the first driver's licenses. Then, OMG, they had to pass tests to get the license, indicating they had to know some rules. And this license put them into govt DB!

Surely, this killed the car!

history.com/news/when-was-…

3/ Drivers tests became more and more strict, with higher and higher fees, and better, more interconnected govt DB.

Surely, this created an underground of unlicensed drivers? Protesting govt intrusion into their privacy and freedom to own property and free movement?

No?

4/ Then the govt stepped in, and started regulating cars - how, when, and where cars could be driven.

Speed limits and other rules restricting and regulating car usage. Gross overreach.

Like gun magazine limits.

This surely killed the car?

history.com/this-day-in-hi…

5/ Surprisingly, there was an increase in car usage as car regulation increased. Clear correlation between number of regs and # of divers.

So licensing (limiting) who could own cars and regulating (restricting) how cars could be driven...

... Didn't dampen car ownership

6/ Then the govt really began overreach, interfering with property & taxation rights, by introducing car insurance.

As damage by cars increased, govts demanded ALL car owners cover a portion of the cost.

Surely that killed the car?

blog.esurance.com/the-surprising…

7/ So, by 1950, rules and regulations restricting the manufacture, ownership, and manner in how cars are used. Age limits. Proof of ability to drive. Arrests, fines, and imprisonment for improper use.

...and mandatory insurance (taxation) to partially defray damage done by cars

8/ Surely this became a national issue? Elections won or lost over this unconstitutional interference? Billions of dollars paying off elected reps to repeal this horrible injustice?

Bc now cars were necessary, to get to work, travel, entertainment. Every aspect of life.

9/ Regulating cars was against so many constitutional rights, especially the most fundamental ones. Freedom of assembly, property, pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

This had to stop! An end to car regulation!

This was a WAR ON CARS!!!

10/ But no. It got worse.

The govt began imposing safety devices, like seat belts (safety lock).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt…

11/ And even what we put into OUR OWN CARS! Some tried to resist, but the govt got its hands on industry and "illegally" mandated the fuel (bullets) and the gas tanks (silencers, magazines) - removing LEAD, even as we protested!

scienceprogress.org/2008/10/a-brie…

12/ And while all this excessive regulation, and unconstitutional overreach was going on, the govt began GATHERING DATA about our car usage. Even the CDC tracked deaths and damage due to cats, leading to ever more restrictions on cars - crash tests,...

The WAR ON CARS!!

13/ Well, as you can imagine, by this point, there was nearly no-one left driving cars. We created private clubs of secretive car owners, driving leaded gas without seat belts. We hid our private cars in secret garages, and buried them underground in the backyard.

14/ We were the stalwart few, protecting our constitutional right to own cars and drive them anyway we pleased. It was a matter of life, liberty and happiness.

We even colluded with foreign powers to protect our car rights. (We needed the cash)

We would not be defeated!

15/ Every new regulation further reduced the number of car-owning, car-driving Americans.

We fought communist organizations, like MADD, interefering with what we put into OUR own bodies!

Insisting prior offences remove entirely our right to drive!

madd.org

16/ Well this was the last straw. Requiring background checks and cross-state databases.

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