Paul Luton wrote:
> Adam Lea wrote:
>> "Paul Luton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> Nigel Cliffe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trevor A Panther wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It has been mooted by many on here that this sort of offence ---
>>>>> killing by motor vehicle --- should result in a lifetime loss of
>>>>> driving licence not a brief 6 month "let off"
>>>>
>>>> Why ? Manslaughter with a pick-axe doesn't automatically attract a
>>>> life-time ban from operating hand digging tools.
>>>
>>> If hand digging tools were a significant cause of death then it might
>>> well do.
>>>
>>> The real problem is how to enforce a driving ban. The requirement to
>>> show a licence when buying fuel might be a start - together with a
>>> similar ban on anyone who abets a banned driver.
>>
>> What happens if you want to buy fuel for some other purpose and don't
>> have a driving license?
>>
> There can't be many other purposes for which petrol or diesel have no
> reasonable alternatives.
Any motor vehicle on private land? Petrol lawn mowers? Petrol
chain-saws? Petrol boats?
> If there are then well tough ! Rather
> occasional inconvenience than convicted dangerous drivers on the roads.
A typical attitude often exhibited by those who, contrary to all the
evidence, still think that ever more regulation is always the way
forward. It wouldn't be occasional. Such measures would inevitably
lead to huge inconvenience for the uncomplaining majority of law-abiding
souls, without inconveniencing the lawless minority for one moment.
Witness the current raft of motoring regulations, and the knee-jerk gun
laws, dog laws, id laws, etc.
If you think that a law requiring a driving licence to be produced to
legitimately buy fuel would prevent, or even slightly deter, an
unlicensed driver from driving, then presumably you would be astonished
if I revealed to you the fact that certain other substances that were
already illegal to buy anywhere, with or without a licence, were
actually freely available to all-comers, of all ages, on practically
every street in the country, and that into the bargain no tax was
payable on them either!
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Matt B