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Originally Posted by DeanFL
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1. Ban rental vans that may appear menacing
2. Background checks to rent
3. Three-day waiting period
I DO NOT want to be insensitive or flippant re this - and actually wondered when hearing this yet-again vehicle mow-down... do our 3 Town Squares have bollards that can slow/stop vehicles? Just checked TV site -live vids of the Squares...NOPE. Never really noticed. Note to TV Security mgt....
I heard on radio news that about 100 people have been killed and many hundreds injured by vehicular attacks as this one in Toronto in the past 5 years or so. (would think it would be higher, but) How many by drunk/sleepy/inattentive(texting) in the USA alone in that period??? MANY times that - but as in anything - like terror, plane or train, fires, you name it - get the media's -and OUR attention.
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Something that could save about 10,000 times as many lives, would be a standard breathalyzer from the manufacturer in every vehicle that one would have to breath in...before a vehicle would start and a person could drive it.
Then we could discuss an 'obesity meter' that could cut down on the potential disaster of an obese person having a sudden heart attack...while driving a motor vehicle.
I guess my point is, that some folks seem to be much more afraid of what is thousands of times less likely to kill them...than those things that are much more likely to take their life.
I, quite frankly, find it hard to comprehend...irrational fears.
