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Originally Posted by outlaw

The pro license/DUI/seat belt checkpoints posts are indicative of how many people are willing to give up their basic right of free movement to the government for some increased sense of safety. When did Americans become so willing to be stopped and challenged by the government on whether they are breaking some law? This sounds like Germany back in the day when everyone had to show their papers. Does it have something to do with getting old and feeling vulnerable? I have never seen a forum that obsesses so much about safety; speeding, rolling through stop signs, golf cart seat belts, grandchildren driving golf carts, golf cart DUI, drinking while driving a golf cart, not using turn signals, 22 mph golf carts, safety inspections... It seems as if the older we get the more preoccupied we become regarding safety. Shouldn't it be other way; we don't have that much time left, we've had a good and long life, we don't have children to raise anymore. Now is the time to hang it all out there and live a little, take a few risks for the thrill. What's so great about outliving all your friends and relatives and dying in an assisted living facility?

Nobody totally free. We have laws. " Sounds like Germany" kinda over the top don't ya think!