Ever wanna kick people's ........butts

[Sharpienads]

Reading this thread makes me want to kick some peoples asses...

Cameron

Go on...

[alxone]

while it may be kinda messed up that they were smoking with the windows up . it is a free country and getting upset that someone is doing something in there own car or home is kinda sh*ty . handle your own and leave the rest alone

[Tinelement]

I agree with many comments here.

I only posted this as it personally bothers me to see little kiddos being hot boxed in a car. I pretty sure we can all at least agree that there are health issues associated with smoking.

I agree that your life is life and your business. I would never vote for more laws and regulations. We already have enough crap regulating us.

Let's just take care of our next generation.! We need to make sure of our health for when the SHTF!!

[alxone]

Let's just take care of our next generation.! We need to make sure of our health for when the SHTF!!

agreed

[UncleDave]

I think we can all agree that hotboxing two infants is a white trash douche move. Having said that, the responsibility rests on the parents of those children. No one else. You may not agree, it may make your blood boil, but mind you own business! If you are fussing and fuming about something that is not your concern, it is a real short step to "WON'T SOMEONE PROTECT THE CHILDREN? IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!" That is how liberties are eroded boys and girls. What if you don't like the religion I raise my children to believe, or the choices in medical treatment I choose for them, or my choices in education? Are you going to know better than me there too? The problem with personal liberty is that you have to let others choose to do things that you don't agree with, that make your blood boil. That is freedom kids.

[Sharpienads]

exactly this
Your good idea isn't worth my freedom.

and it's pretty damn sad that 90% of a GUN BOARD in fucking relatively free Colorado thinks it's all well and good to have armed officers of the state enforce their good idea.

doomed

Who are all these people and what ideas do they want enforced by the state?

[Byte Stryke]

Criminal assault.

So if you saw me pouring Ammonia down a baby's throat in my car, you wouldn't call the cops?

How about Benzine?
Cadmium?
Cyanide?
Insecticide? (DDT,Methoprene)
Arsenic?

http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/whatsinit.htm


I agree that less Government is better. Less intervention is better. But not at the expense of a child's life. The line comes in at defending those that cannot defend themselves.

OR

Intervention now might prevent the kid from being dependent on social welfare programs all of his/her life because mommy and Daddy gave him Emphysema/Asthma/whatever, now he cannot work and you have to pay for it.


Take your pick.


Just my 2cents

[Ronin13]

Good idea, we should also tax salt like that since that isn't good for you either.
And anything with high fructose corn syrup. I hear alcohol is bad for you so lets tax the piss out of that, then we wont have so many alcoholics.

Now what really takes a toll on human lives in the US is car accidents, we should raise taxes on gas and diesel by 300%. This will keep people from driving as much and decrease the death toll.

I like the way this is going!

THIS! While I would like to say something to the parents, just let them know that what they're doing is wrong (but legal) and I feel that they're not helping their children in anyway. The moment we impose our will on others, be it banning smoking in restaurants and bars, open carry in cities, parking outside your own home during a Broncos game, and selling alcohol on Sundays (old and gone I know) we are slowly but surely undermining that little notion called "freedom." My mother smoked my entire life and recently quit a few months ago- along with me- and it wasn't until I started hanging out with the 'cool kids' in High School that I started smoking. I still look back and think my mom was not doing wrong when she would roll the window down on a road trip with me and my little brother in the car and light up. Now, had she done so without rolling the window down, yes I would think she was just not using good judgement around her children, but I will only voice my thoughts on the issue, not press for a damn law to be passed mitigating the risk of different behavior from the norm. I still remember the days when restaurants had a smoking and non-smoking section, and saving us from ourselves has become one of the biggest annoyances in the world.

Look at it from this side, some people choose to smoke, I did, and you'd have to be severely retarded to not realize that inhaling smoke/chemicals isn't harmful to your health. These same smokers want to enjoy libations in a social atmosphere from time to time, and these times sometimes arise in the dead of winter or during a massive downpour... see where this is going? So the state of Colorado decided to not allow business owners to make the choice whether or not to allow smoking inside their establishment, but instead made that decision for them and (here comes the keywords that make my point) restricted freedom by passing a law that basically saved us from ourselves once more at the cost of liberty. /derail, /rant

[SouthPaw]

Was there a pun intended in the title?

[BlasterBob]

Good idea, we should also tax salt like that since that isn't good for you either.
And anything with high fructose corn syrup.

No, your use of salt and your consuming foods/drinks with high fructose corn syrup is not going to affect ME in the same way as having some ding-a-ling blowing smoke right in my direction. You can sure tell that I am NOT and have never been a smoker. Many years ago, I was confined to a cancer ward where I saw countless numbers of folks suffering from terminal lung cancer. They had been smokers and some were still puffing on their cancer sticks while slowly moving their walkers up and down the hallways just waiting to meet the Grim Reaper. It was their choice but still the tax payers were having to help pay for some of their damn expensive treatments. They had most likely been warned but decided to take up the habit anyway. The smoking discussions will be around for a long time with no end in sight. I have three offspring (now adults) who have never smoked and I believe it was mainly because I had strongly impressed them at a young age to not start the nasty habit.
OK, flame away but please don't use the flame to light one up.