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"Mike Smith" <mws@wt.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:16:26 -0500, "Che'Gu Maru"
> <chgumaru@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
> >"Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
> >news:3d84ddd3.7357709@news.ev1.net...
> >> http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020915-492707.htm
> >>
> >> Will Texas be the next state in the chain?  California long known for
> >> the birthplace of nutty ideas may be auger omens of the future in this
> >> instance.
> >
> >It's admittedly a bad idea.  While I believe that legal immigration has
and
> >continues to contribute much to this nation, we do have every right to
> >control our borders.
> >
> >In this instance,.a better solution to my mind would be to make it a
serious
> >felony to be caught driving without a valid license (which is the way it
> >should be, so drunken scofflaws can be taken off the street).
> >
> >Also note that if the law applies to everyone, then it is neither racist
nor
> >discriminatory.
> >
>
> Also a week in jail and $500 fine for lack of insurance. If you are
> gonna drive, you better be able to pay for any accidents you cause.
>
> Write your Texas legislative critter. Request that they pass the
> following:
> Driving drunk gets you a mandatory 6 months in jail for the first
> offense. Injuring someone gets you 3 years minimum, and killing
> someone gets you minimum 20 years.
>
> Mike Smith

I can go for that, but with one alteration. You see, I believe any act which
kills an innocent person, and which any reasonable person would know had a
high probability of killing an innocent person, should be a capital offense.

Under this conception if one shoots a gun into the air in an urban area or
drives while highly intoxicated, he'd better thank his lucky stars that he
didn't kill someone. If he had, under the law I would wish passed, he'd be
sitting on death row.