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Originally Posted by Sezzy
Here's a novel suggestion - you need a licence to own/buy a gun. They do a police check on you to purchase this said product. Why on earth don't they do a police check on you or make sure you have to have a licence to buy a car? Seems logical to me, but maybe I'm just old fashioned - guns kill things, apparently cars don't...
Anyone can go buy a car, hoon or not. There is no physical restriction. I guess the real problem seems to be, that those children who don't respect their parents, turn into adolescents who don't respect authority, who turn into the socially unadjusted plebs of society who flout every law known to man, draining our well structured system to go back to the same soft judge who gives them yet another slap on the wrist for being a complete idiot, and sends them on their way, only to reoffend a short time later; simply because the punishment didn't deter them. As a teenager I was too scared to do anything stupid for fear that both the police and my parents would kick my rear end if I was caught. We've softened our views on society, to follow the yanks way of thinking, and it's not helping. You now can't discipline your own child...goodbye socially well adjusted, our world is going to be overrun by idiots, and the government can be thanked for that, let's take the soft approach on everything, from education to justice. I'm going to sound old here, however, when I was a child, I was disciplined if I did something wrong. I respected my elders and I respected those things that were not mine. The inconvenient truth is that somewhere along the line between the dole bludgers and the other plebs of society, we appear to be supporting those who make poor life decisions and beating other's about the head for a small misdemeanor. Speeding isn't bad, speeding excessively is bad. Hooning isn't bad, providing it's done in the appropriate places. I do however, fail to see how providing people with a location to hoon is going to prevent them from doing it on the streets? It's an all too common occurrence leaving drag racing events to see some dumb s*** going sideways down the road because he thinks he's invincible.
Recently there was a study that came out, that suggested that it wasn't until you were 25 that your brain became fully developed. If this is the case, and the government are actually concerned about this kind of thing, why wouldn't they just lift the limits to 25...? Yes, I know, it's probably hard given the current legislation, but it would surely show that the government wasn't just interested in money, but in ensuring that the population of Australia stays safe!
I think I can safely say, after a near miss at losing my legs from being a passenger in an accident with a hoon, that all the talk in the world won't solve this problem. What really needs to happen is some stricter laws, punishments that will actually deter people from offending time and time again.
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