Yes there are a lot of dumb ass laws we have to live by. It makes me wonder it the people that make them ever live in the real world with the rest of us. I can't believe that the people in power want to side with the people who are in the wrong and the dumbass fuckups.
I think things like the seat belt laws are stupid. Like I said in a thread not to long ago, it isn't the government’s job to protect you from yourself, as long as you are an adult anyhow. If you want to do something stupid and die then go ahead. We won't have to deal with you anymore, and if the government doesn't want to pay your medical bills because you were an idiot I wouldn't blame them.
Aces&Jacks said:
You are usually only liable if what happened to the person was forseeable and you did nothing prior to correct the problem (negligence).
If a person slips on your sidewalk and breaks a leg after a snow storm you are liable because it is forseeable that someone would slip and fall because you didn't shovel the snow after the storm was over.
See, even this doesn't make any sense because wouldn't it then be foreseeable for the person walking on it know that it would be slippery and to take precautions and be more careful. The only way I could rightfully see somebody being liable would be if you made them walk on your property. I don't want to have to take care of every loose stone on my property because some idiot might want to come where he is not welcome and slip on it. It is like people are now allowed to sue you for their lack of common sense.
As far as people being hurt on your land without you permission, maybe there is a reason you don't want them on, they could get hurt. That is almost as bad as the stories about people that break into other's houses, slip on the kitchen floor while coming through the window, and then successfully sue the person that owns the house they were breaking into. It's happened before. Nice to see the American way working, where you can sue pretty much anybody or almost anything and probably win.
I really hate to say this, but if somebody is on your property and you have to kill them to protect yourself, I recommend lying if you have to, even if you were almost certainly justified in doing so. The way are justice system is set up you are pretty much guilty until proven innocent in that regard anyhow. Of course they never take into account the fact that the first time you assume the person will do nothing to you might end up dead. I swear in most places in this country to actually be considered to have used reasonable force without them wanting to prosecute you the other person pretty much has to have a knife stuck in your heart first. Of course the last thing you want to do when your life is on the line is calculate how to escape successfully when it might very well put your life in even more danger or go though a lengthy calculation of what you can and cannot do within some stupid law that doesn't follow common sense when you can die because of the hesitation in a life threatening situation. If somebody breaks into my house I don't want to assume he is just going to leave my family and me alone. I don't want to have sit there and think about if I could only get behind him and club him, or maybe tackle him to the ground I could take care of the situation so he could then pull out a knife and cut me to shreds or just shoot me. I don't want to have to rely on the police who might arrive 30 minutes later if I am lucky. I don't want to pray I can open a window and bust out the screen so silently that he can't hear it and come right after me. I don't even want to shoot him in an un-vital area where he can live long enough to retaliate. I want to take out my gun and tell him to freeze (unless he forces me to kill him before that), and he damn well better do what I say, how I say it, and immediately when I say it, because if he makes even a little lunge at me or twitches in a way I don't like before the police show up, he is dead. It's as simple as that. Which is ok by me because I know at the end of the day I'm the one that’s alive, even if I might be sent to prison. Of course there are people in the justice system that will say oh no, poor criminal how could you do that and take people’s like that side. Who knows maybe even I have it wrong, maybe if they want to make it so hard to defend yourself you should just dispose of the body in a way nobody will ever find it and pretend it didn't happen. That isn't what I would like, but I didn't make this screwed up world the way it is.
