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Gaawa_chan posted...

aDirtyShisno posted...

Like I said above, voice your opinions to your lawmakers to change the laws or vote out the lawmakers you disagree with. If you cant do that then obviously there isnt enough support to your opinion and the laws should be enforced as they currently stand.

You hear that guys? Be careful where/what time you do anything on Sunday, play pinball, do normal things while black (since Jim Crow laws are still on the books all over the country)... oh, how about the child marriage laws still all over the place in the USA? In many states, there is no age requirement AT ALL provided your parents are willing to sel- I mean- sign you off. Or parental rights for rapists and women not being permitted to withdraw consent if things take a bad turn?

That is what you just argued for. I think maybe you might want to learn more about US law before you say stuff like that again. Our system is not built to make revoking unjust, outdated, or ridiculous laws easy. They exist in every single state, and are nothing but a burden both to the citizenry and the judicial system. Immigration is the perfect example of this; treating it as a criminal rather than a civil offense is a massive burden on our judicial system, it is expensive, it is inefficient, and it is damaging to the reputation of our nation. We could free up our courts for more important work and save money if we modernized the process of applying for legal status/renewing status (second one is actually more important than the first) and changed undocumented immigration from a criminal to a civil offense.

Pretty sure around 90% of what you just said have been legislated Federally, and some of that Constitutionally at that. Again if its outlawed it should remain outlawed, if a Judicial case nullified a law than it should be physically stricken as a matter of business, and if its not been removed from the books and its bad then get your lawmakers to remove it.

Ignoring laws because you disagree with them and think theyre stupid is just asking for anarchy. Murderers ignore laws all the time because they think they shouldnt apply. What makes enforcing those laws any different than enforcing say a stupid law that says a husband must walk in front of his wifes car swinging a lantern to warn all other drivers of a woman driver on the road?

Yup, its a real law in some State, I forget which. A stupid law, but a real law. Dont want to enforce it? Pull it off the books. Did it get nullified by a Constitutional Amendment? Pull it off the books. Otherwise if its somehow completely legal, and I doubt it is, then enforce it. Otherwise you might as well let everyone go free.
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