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December 07, 2004
Easy availability, plus culture of death, equals murder and mayhem!
"How many funerals, how many marches, how many hospital visits does it take before people say it's time to take action?" asks Shelly Yanoff, executive director of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth. Damned good question! How many times have we been told SUVs were dangerous and evil? That they drag people to death? And how many more stories like this will it take until something is done? ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A woman ran over two teenage brothers after they accidentally hit her sport utility vehicle with the golf ball they were bouncing in a parking lot, officials said, leaving one of the boys with life-threatening injuries.The only detail they left out is that this was a very nice woman, and none of it makes any sense at all. Clearly, the SUV is at fault. Obviously, the only thing to do is ban them. Charging this poor woman with attempted murder solves nothing. What social forces created that fiendish instrument of death? When are we going to address the culture of death and violence that drove her on and was ultimately behind it? I'm sure that the conservatives would try to say that this was the driver's fault, in yet another numbing lecture about "taking personal responsibility." Yet there are millions of these deadly machines on our streets. Who is going to take responsibility for their easy availability? Right now, anyone can go to an SUV dealer and buy one of these assault vehicles, no limits, no questions asked. All that's needed is money. Why, they'll even sell you one on credit! Or rent you one? There are even video games like this which glorify them. At least one thing is encouraging: we're beginning to have a serious national debate on "assault SUVs." Not one day too soon! Take it from prophet Paul Ehrlich -- whose latest book warns us in no uncertain terms: An SUV culture will be humanity’s downfall.(Ehrlich, of course, is a favorite of Justin, who's even forced me to quote him verbatim, but I'm just too lazy to review the prophet's latest book, which Amazon ranks at 14,177.) posted by Eric on 12.07.04 at 07:21 AM
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