A Jackson city leader is proposing an ordinance that would prohibit city car dealers from selling fast vehicles. But auto dealers say they are being targeted unfairly. Council Member Kenneth Stokes (Ward 3) says automotive dealers that sell cars are at least partly responsible for drunk driving and accidents. There have been more than 30 vehicular deaths in Jackson since the start of the year and countless more accidents. “I asked the young folks, where are they getting their cars and they say the car dealers. I asked the older people where are they getting their cars and they say the car dealers," Stokes said. One of the city's oldest car dealerships is Big Daddy's in the Battlefield Park neighborhood. The store's owners say they sell about 700 cars each year. "It would hurt my business tremendously not to be able to sell cars," said Kevin Macdonald, owner of Big Daddy's. Macdonald says people have to provide a valid drivers license to purchase cars at his store. He does not see a link between car sales and vehicular manslaughter. Stokes is holding a traffic summit at Jackson City Hall at 6:30 Wednesday night to discuss other traffic-fighting strategies.
A Jackson city leader is proposing an ordinance that would prohibit city car dealers from selling fast vehicles. But auto dealers say they are being targeted unfairly.
Council Member Kenneth Stokes (Ward 3) says automotive dealers that sell cars are at least partly responsible for drunk driving and accidents. There have been more than 30 vehicular deaths in Jackson since the start of the year and countless more accidents.
“I asked the young folks, where are they getting their cars and they say the car dealers. I asked the older people where are they getting their cars and they say the car dealers," Stokes said.
One of the city's oldest car dealerships is Big Daddy's in the Battlefield Park neighborhood. The store's owners say they sell about 700 cars each year.
"It would hurt my business tremendously not to be able to sell cars," said Kevin Macdonald, owner of Big Daddy's.
Macdonald says people have to provide a valid drivers license to purchase cars at his store. He does not see a link between car sales and vehicular manslaughter.
Stokes is holding a traffic summit at Jackson City Hall at 6:30 Wednesday night to discuss other traffic-fighting strategies.
Does that article make sense to you at all?
Why should a car dealer, or manufacturer for that matter, be responsible for the product they sell if a person uses it in the wrong manner? They continually build cars to go faster, to protect better in crashes, and therefor limiting the responsibility of the driver to take care when he or she is on the road, right?
Doesn't make a lick of sense.
Then why does it make any more sense when you read the same article and replace car dealers with pawn shops who sell firearms?
Now, as gunnies, we are loathe to point fingers at anyone besides the felon who pulls the trigger, and that's logically consistent. However, there are unscrupulous sellers who sell guns to people they know are not legal to own them, and I, like everyone else I know, call on our government to find and punish those who do so.
But simply saying "Pawn Shops" are the problem is the sign of a simpleton trying to figure out a solution to a problem that is too complex for their brain to handle. It is a sign of a failure to grasp reality. The sales of guns at a pawn shop are under the same rules as any business - there must be a background check. It is unfair as well as ignorant to accuse Pawn Shops of supplying the guns used in the commission of crimes as if they (a) knew about its use in advance or (b) were selling guns without performing background checks.
But ignorance and failure are a hallmark of gun-banners.
Banning Guns - It's what you do instead of doing something.
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